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OWEN MATTHEWS - GEBRAUCHT BLACK SUN THE OUTSTAN...

'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES 'A stunning debut thriller . . . utterly terrifying . . . absolutely
riveting' DAILY MAIL 'Fascinating . . . fearsome' FREDERICK FORSYTH 'Enthralling' FINANCIAL
TIMES 'Thrilling . . . compelling' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 1961. Hidden deep within central
Soviet Russia is a place that doesn't appear on any map: a city called Arzamas-16. Here
dedicated scientists and technicians are building the most powerful nuclear device the world
will ever see - three thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima. But days before the bomb is
to be tested  a young physicist is found dead. His body contains enough radioactive poison to
kill thousands. The authorities believe it is suicide - they want the corpse disposed of  the
incident filed and forgotten. But Moscow is alarmed by what's going on in this strange 
isolated place. And so KGB major Alexander Vasin is sent to Arzamas to investigate. What he
finds there is unlike anything he's experienced before. His wits will be tested against some of
the Soviet Union's most brilliant minds - eccentrics  patriots and dissidents who  because
their work is considered to be of such vital importance  have been granted the freedom to think
and act  live and love as they wish. For in Arzamas  nothing can be allowed to get in the way
of the project. Not even murder . . . Intricately researched  cunningly plotted and brilliantly
told  Black Sun is a fast-paced and timely thriller set at the height - and in the heart - of
Soviet power from the acclaimed author of An Impeccable Spy. What readers are saying: 'Woven
around real events  people and places  it's genuinely terrifying stuff' ***** 'The twists and
turns and intrigue kept me on tenterhooks' ***** 'Brings alive one of the most fascinating
periods of Soviet history' *****

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