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Sons of Earth
Suspense
238 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 1982
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Richard Rhodes
99 books622 followersRichard Lee Rhodes is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (2007). He has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation among others.
He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects to various audiences, including testifying before the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy.
He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects to various audiences, including testifying before the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy.
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March 4, 2026
Is this me, or is this just a generational thing, but what a terribly written book. Gosh what a great premise, and the whole book falls flat. First, you hate the book because you know who the criminal is from the beginning.
So it is just about the how and how could the criminal be caught, so you are reading just because.
The science bits were rather interesting.
But it is not such an interesting read.
The characters are also mostly uninteresting. It is flat. I was promised a unique ending though, but I was just bored and it was just so absolutely boring.
And he operates like that?
Weird rubbish book. Ridiculous dialogues and actions as in, if your son were abducted in real -life, would dialogues really be this ridiculous, not to mention characters behaviours?
So it is just about the how and how could the criminal be caught, so you are reading just because.
The science bits were rather interesting.
But it is not such an interesting read.
The characters are also mostly uninteresting. It is flat. I was promised a unique ending though, but I was just bored and it was just so absolutely boring.
And he operates like that?
Weird rubbish book. Ridiculous dialogues and actions as in, if your son were abducted in real -life, would dialogues really be this ridiculous, not to mention characters behaviours?
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