Daikon
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description: DaikonSamuel Hawley Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster July 1 2026 EAN: 9781668083062 ISBN: 166808306X Synopsis: "A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance." --John Grisham "Absorbing...Unfolds like a detective novel...The story barrels ahead urgently...Duty, anger, sorrow, conscience and even hope mix together to form the novel's bracingly intimate ending." --The Wall Street Journal "What if not two but three atomic bombs wound up in the Pacific theater?...Hawley's impeccably detailed narrative offers an unnerving fictional answer...The novel's tension mounts in highly cinematic fashion, despite our awareness of what the history books tell us." --The New York Times A sweeping and suspenseful novel of love and war, set in Japan during the final days of World War II, with a shocking historical premise: three atomic bombs were actually delivered to the Pacific--not two--and when one of them falls into the hands of the Japanese, the fate of a couple that has been separated from one another becomes entangled with the fate of this terrifying new device. War has taken everything from physicist Keizo Kan. His young daughter was killed in the Great Tokyo Air Raid, and now his Japanese American wife, Noriko, has been imprisoned by the brutal Thought Police. An American bomber, downed over Japan on the first day of August 1945, offers the scientist a surprising chance at salvation. The Imperial Army dispatches him to examine an unusual device recovered from the plane's wreckage--a bomb containing uranium--and tells him that if he can unlock its mysteries, his wife will be released. Working in secrecy under crushing pressure, Kan begins to disassemble the bomb and study its components. One of his assistants falls ill after mishandling the uranium, but his alarming deterioration, and Kan's own symptoms, are ignored by the commanding officer demanding results. Desperate to stave off Japan's surrender to the Allies, the army will stop at nothing to …
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