KANON, JOSEPH — Los Alamos

New York: Broadway Books, 1997. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0553062247. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. There is some light bumping to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some very beginning bumping to the bottom spine end. This is the author's first book and an Edgar award winning novel. "Kanon began his writing career in 1995. His first novel, Los Alamos (1997) , became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998. Further novels followed, including The Prodigal Spy, The Good German and Alibi. His stories are set in the period between World War II and 1950, and he has often used a real event, such as the Potsdam Conference or the Manhattan Project, as the background for a murder case. His novels are critically acclaimed, and reviewers from the Boston Globe and The New York Times have compared his work with the novels of Graham Greene and John le Carré" (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .