London: HarperCollins, 1995. A story of two boys, born in 1944 in Los Alamos, New Mexico, sons of men who worked on the Manhattan project, who grew up together as the best of friends but whose paths lead in separate directions during the Vietnam war. Praised by such diverse authors as Peter Straub ("the best new novel I've read in a long time..this book is on fire"), Robert Olen Butler ("a masterpiece"), John Hawkes, John Guare and others.