The True Record
Some discoveries are too dangerous to release. In 1943, four men agreed to hold them back. They never wrote it down. It lasted a hundred years.
Four complete novels in one volume. It began during the Manhattan Project as a promise to buy time. It became a secret institution with no name, one that decides which breakthroughs the world receives, and when. It keeps two sets of books: the official record, and the true one.Told in reverse, from the institution's present back to the afternoon it began:
The Reconciliation: Accountant Jake Osei is recruited because he can make any set of records agree. Then he finds one that won't, and his grandmother's name is in it.
The Interval: Nora Voss decides which research disappears. Then a breakthrough that could help her mother, who is losing her memory, lands on her desk.
The Threshold: In 1987, Margaret Osei stops a compound that would have become a biological weapon. She was right. A colleague asks her a question she will carry for twenty years: by what right?
The Agreement: In 1943, Ruth Driscoll, the records manager no one invited, stands outside a closed door at Los Alamos. She understands what the men inside are deciding before they do.
For readers of John le Carr and Kazuo Ishiguro: character-driven literary fiction about secrets, suppressed science, and decisions with no right answer.
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