Stallion Gate ("New Copy!!!" - Stated First Edition/Stated Second Print - F/VF with F/VF DJ)

by Martin Cruz Smith

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Random House, New York NY (1986) HC w/ DJ, New, Stated First Edition/Stated Second Print (Copyright page number series reads: 1-9, Copyright page states: First Edition, Copyright page Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data numbers read: PS3569.M5377S7 1986 813\'.54 85-24444, jacket\'s back inner flap states: Random House 5/86 ), 8vo, 321 pages; Book: New - F/VF, clean, tight and sound, nothing derogatory of note, blue boards with black cloth spine and spine-turns, bright silver lettering to spine in fancy font, author\'s initials flat stamped to front board in bright silver with artistic font; Pages: New - F/VF, clean, white and secure, remainder mark to bottom edges, elsewise nothing derogatory of note; DJ: New - F/VF, clean and bright, original jacket art by Wendell Minor, nothing derogatory of note, not clipped, price still showing on front inner flap (a remainder/not a book club ed./not a Library ed.) Synopsis: From the author of the bestselling, Gorky Park, comes Martin Cruz Smith\'s first novel since that blockbuster, Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Smith\'s, Gorky Park, classic: In a New Mexico blizzard four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select the test site for the first atomic weapon. They are, Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy; and the fourth man is sergeant Joe Pena, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, and Native American Indian. Oppenheimer and Groves have hidden Los Alamos on a mesa surrounded by Indian reservations. It is the most secret installation of World War II, the future encompassed by the past. To it come soldiers, roughnecks, and scientists, including Anna Weiss, a mathematician and refugee from the Holocaust with whom Joe falls in love. Stallion Gate, is a powerful erotic idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war, it is a novel about the most important seconds in history. This was Martin Cruz Smith\'s 5th work.

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