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At Fermilab near Chicago, researchers use the world's largest particle accelerator to unlock the secrets of the subatomic universe. While working late one night, Dr. Georg Dumenico--candidate for the Nobel Prize in physics--is bombarded with a lethal exposure of radiation. He will die horribly within days. FBI Special Agent Craig Kreident knows it was no accident--but he has to prove it, and the clock is ticking. The nation's most valued research is at stake, and only Dumenico himself knows show more enough to track down his own murderer...if he survives long enough to do it. show lessTags
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While the plot is not particularly original, the setting is and the story is solid and well written. It managed to hook me and I stole time from other things I had to do in order to see if it would end as I would expect. While I don't want to spoil anything of the ending of the main story, the romance side-story of the main character adds a few points of entertainment and it ends in a way that I found unconventional, with the two characters that flirted on and off along all the book, married to work.
One of the main selling points of this book is the scientific side, the story if set in a physics research centre in the US. While it is a pleasure to see some good science, it is not a fundamental part of the plot and there is absolutely show more nothing difficult to understand about it. show less
One of the main selling points of this book is the scientific side, the story if set in a physics research centre in the US. While it is a pleasure to see some good science, it is not a fundamental part of the plot and there is absolutely show more nothing difficult to understand about it. show less
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Anderson and Beason are both physicists, which gives their latest plenty of scientific authenticity. So if you know the difference between Feynman diagrams and scattering matrices and don't mind two-dimensional characters, this should be your superconducting cup of tea.
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Kevin J. Anderson was born on March 27, 1962. Before becoming a full-time author, he worked in California for twelve years as a technical writer and editor at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His science fiction books include Resurrection, Inc., the Star Wars Jedi Academy Trilogy, the Young Jedi Knights series, Ground Zero, Ruins, show more Climbing Olympus, Blindfold, and The Dark Between the Stars. He has also written several books with Doug Beason including Ignition, Virtual Destruction, Fallout, and Ill Wind. (Bowker Author Biography) Kevin J. Anderson has written twenty seven bestsellers and has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Reader's Choice Award. He also holds the Guinness world record for "The Largest Single-Author Signing". (Publisher Provided) show less
Doug Beason, Ph.D., Col. (USAF, RET.), is a Fellow of the prestigious American Physical Society
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- Canonical title
- Lethal Exposure
- Original title
- Lethal Exposure
- Original publication date
- 1998-07
- People/Characters
- Craig Kreident
- Dedication
- To Kathy Dyer and Leslie Lauderdale, who have
spent many hours reading our draft manuscripts and
offering their suggestions as test readers to make the
books as good as they can be.
–KJA
To the men and... (show all) women of the FBI – with special
thanks to Tom and Bob, for taking the time to help
us get this right.
–DB - Blurbers
- Steele, Allen
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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