New York: Saga Press / Simon & Schuster, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - An alternate history about the creation of the atomic bomb which explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by the United States on D-Day - June 6, 1944. A book which combines espionage with science, with the core based on accounts of his father-in-law, the chemist and mathematician Karl P. Cohen, a junior partner in the Manhattan Project, who had discovered an alternate solution, but whose ideas were shot down by more senior members - although time has proven them right. Illustrated with photographs. Afterword with more information on the scientists and others who appear in the book - many of whom Benford knew personally. In addition to being an award-winning author, Benford is an astrophysicist who is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. 466 pp. ISBN: 978-1481487641.