New York: Henry Holt, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Reissue of the third novel by this Pulitzer prize winning writer, originally published in 1983. Set in the New Mexico desert, it is the story of two scientists: one an archaeologist unearthing the past, the other working on the development of the first atom bomb. SIGNED on the title page. 217 pp,. ISBN: 0-8050-32029.

New York: Doubleday, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by a journalist who has spent many years reporting on conflicts in Bosnia, Chechnya, Ukraine and elsewhere, and who served in Moscow as Newsweek's bureau chief for 10 years. Set at the beginning of the 1960s at the height of Soviet power and based on real events, the creation of the world's most powerful nuclear weapon, one with 3,800 times the destructive potential of the Hiroshima bomb, this is the story of a KGB agent sent to investigate the death of a brilliant young physicist, in a top-secret research city that does not appear on any map and where this bomb, RDS-220 was being developed. Author's note on the historical background. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385543408.

Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Described as an "apocalyptic fable" and as "a combination of political thriller, a sci-fi romp and a poetic medititation on history [which] confronts America's nuclear legacy and present lunacy with furious satire and haunting grace." In this novel the three scientists most responsible for the atom bomb - Oppenheimer, Fermi and Szilard - are displaced to modern America at the moment the first mushroom cloud formed over New Mexico, and are taken in by a reference librarian and her doting gardener husband. SIGNED on the title page. 489 pp. ISBN: 1932360859.