The Trinity Factor

Rating:
Summary: Pretty good job.
Review: Having worked at Stallion Range Center in the mid 1960's and lived in Socorro, I greatly enjoyed remembering the area. Two niggles; Groves would have turned left after Stallion Range Gate to get to Trinity. Also, the town of Truth or Consequences was named Hot Springs in 1945; it was renamed in 1950 during a performance of the radio show of the same name. All in all, a very entertaining book.

Rating:
Summary: Convincing and Compelling.
Review: Once again, Flannery develops a novel that is both convincing and compelling.

Imagine that Stalin had been convinced that it was vital that the atomic bomb project should be stopped or at a minimum that the United States believe the atomic bomb would not work and that they had recalled their best spy from Germany and refocused him to go to America and try to penetrate the Manhattan Project. Imagine further that he was given cover through a young Russian woman who was recruited to act as his wife for the duration. Then consider the possibility that a really good spy would work very hard to penetrate the project and to kill General Grove and science director Oppenheimer.

As a precaution, the spies were infiltrated from a captured German submarine and the hope was that if anything would be discovered it would be blamed on the Germans. Groves, a very methodical man, sought to protect the project from this kind of security threat and brought in someone he did not quite trust but knew had a compulsion to hunt down every threat.

Flannery takes this skeletal structure and turns it into a very believable tale of patriotism, and heroism on both sides. Ultimately he leaves you to contemplate the tragedies of lives broken by the demands of a global war and the beginning of a cold war.

Rating:
Summary: A Page Turner!
Review: This was a very interesting book. The action is played out at the ending of World War II. Russia is on the verge of seizing Berlin. The United States is winding up it's war with Japan.The Russian dictator Stalin knows that the Americans are developing an atomic bomb that will be used to bring an end to World War II. Stalin sends two Russian spies,Alek and Jada to America to hinder the development of the bomb. In America,a Captain Lovelace is soon on their trail. This turns into an exciting chase. This book displays the spy network that is used during World War II by the Russians. This is a very good book. It keeps your attention from start to finish. The ending of this book is also very good. Read this book. You will be satisfied.