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ISBN 0-812-50180-2 (US pbk),,, 0-586-21386-4 (UK pbk)
novel, science fiction, detective fiction, murder mystery, physics, New Mexico
21st century, American southwest.
"The small mining town of Atocha, New Mexico, is having trouble coping with the 21st Century. It's a place where old family values still hold strong, where Loren Hawn, the chief of police, can usually solve any crime because he knows everyone and all their secrets.
"But this sleepy backwater is about to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future, as high-energy physics meets small-town politics. On the outskirts of the town there's a new government laboratory where scientists are experimenting with the nature of space and time.
"And on the floor of the police station there's a body -- a man riddled with bullets. Loren recognises him -- but that's no help. He last saw the man twenty years ago, the day he died in a terrible accident..." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1992]
Recommended.
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