Andrew Rosenheim porta una prospettiva unica nella sua scrittura, informata da una carriera di rilievo nell'editoria elettronica e nell'intelligenza artificiale. Il suo lavoro approfondisce le complessità delle relazioni umane e gli enigmi etici, riflettendo una profonda comprensione del mondo moderno. Lo stile di Rosenheim è caratterizzato da precisione e intuizione analitica, che attirano i lettori in narrazioni riflessive. Scrive con la perspicacia di chi esplora la coscienza e l'impatto della tecnologia sulla società.
Autumn 1941: most of the world is at war. But before they can meet, Osaka vanishes. Nessheim's search for Osaka takes him to a Mob-run gambling club, through the dense streets of LA's Little Tokyo, from the seamy San Pedro docks to the hill-top ranch of a Communist sympathiser.
Michael Wolf felt he had escaped his past - Stillriver, the small town in Michigan where he grew up, his troubles with his father, the petty jealousies and competitiveness of his younger brother, and most of all the disaster that ended his relationship with Cassie, the love of his life.
Late one night, Robert Danziger receives an unexpected call from a childhood friend, Duval Morgan. Duval has spent more than twenty years in an Illinois state penitentiary for the horrific rape and assault of a young nurse. Now he is finally out. Robert reluctantly agrees to meet him, and is astonished to find he is proclaiming his innocence.
But the covert nuclear programme at the University of Chicago has been infiltrated by an enemy agent, and Nessheim is persuaded by the FBI to help track him down. Nessheim's personal and professional lives grow dangerously intertwined as he struggles to protect the war's deadliest secret - and work out who he can trust.