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the long version

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are embarking on the most momentous program since the Manhattan Project ... or are they? Disgraced MIT professor Richard 'Rick' Adams is recruited by the Los Alamos National Laboratory as the pivotal team member, verifying the operability of a post-Soviet Republic's gamma ray laser. Rick is inveigled into a cabal of amorous traitors and his life becomes controlled by a psychopathic mastermind. But when Rick learns that the traitors' plot could undermine the world's nuclear future, he must act.