Stallion Gate, Martin Cruz Smith
Stallion Gate, Martin Cruz Smith
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Stallion Gate

Author: Martin Cruz Smith

Narrator: Frank Muller

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/30/2019


Synopsis

From internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith comes an epic story of a physicist, a general, a spy, and a hero who will change history forever.

In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select a test site for the first atomic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Pena, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, Indian. These four men—and a cast of soldiers, roughnecks and scientists—will change history forever.

About Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith’s novels include Gorky ParkStallion GateNightwingPolar StarStalin’s GhostRoseDecember 6TatianaThe Girl from VeniceThe Siberian Dilemma, and Independence Square. He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award and Britain’s Golden Dagger Award, and a winner of the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale. He lives in California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy

Intense read...I balanced with a break away, then back again. It was not at all what I expected since my choice dovetailed North Korean missile hijinks, thinking it would be good to read about the participants at Los Alamos where it all started - the ultimate bomb making to eliminate or defend again......more

Goodreads review by Canavan

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Goodreads review by Chris

Pulled this off the shelf last night to give me some straightforward relief from The Bros. K. and Tristram Shandy. Set in NM, so that's nice. I read "Day of Trinity" a long time ago so I have some historical background of the times and places. I've been close to Los Alamos, but turned off to go to B......more

Goodreads review by Carole

Wow. What a wonderful, beautifully crafted, intense read. Had to read the last 100 pages or so twice. Multiple, diverse and compelling story lines woven into the events leading up to Trinity, the testing of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos. That we know the outcome of this test will kill 100s of thousa......more