Inspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed author of The Honey Farm and Natural Killer.
Above all, it is a testament to the logic-defying love of a parent who will stop at nothing to protect their child..
It is a love story about two people whose destinies are bound by everything they share, and all that they\'ve kept from one another.
But is she innocent? Wouldn\'t any wife and mother have done the same thing in her shoes? And now, will it cost her everything? Inspired by the physicist Leó Szilárd and the letters he wrote his wife, Gertrud Trude Weiss, Let It Destroy You is told in parallel narratives and ventures from Budapest to Berlin to Colorado, and back to Europe.
She had nothing to do with making the bomb.
Restless in her Hague hotel room the night before, she keeps watch over their daughter and reflects on the events that brought them here.
But are his intentions relevant when the fate of the world is at stake? August\'s former wife, June, will also attend the hearing.
He invented a radiation machine to cure his young daughter\'s cancer, despite knowing that the very same technology was capable of great destruction, and inevitably profited from disaster.
Tomorrow, August Snow will be tried at the International War Crimes Court for patenting a more lethal variation on the atomic bomb.
It is August 12, 1945.
Inspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed author of The Honey Farm and Natural Killer
