![]() ![]() This plotline, though interesting, is more successful as history than mystery. The 1950s plot, which centers around nuclear testing and the mysterious Project 57, thickens when the ingenuous Freddie is introduced to Georgiy, a Russian whose malevolence will be instantly apparent to everyone but him. More deaths add urgency to the investigation. Borgos’ debut is solidly anchored in the lively banter between Beck and Locke, who soon give in to their sexual chemistry. ![]() The more elaborate third-person prose of these chapters plays nicely against Beck’s more direct first-person narrative. Through a family friend, Kitty helps Freddie get a job at the nearby atomic testing site. Interspersed flashbacks take the story to 1955, when destined lovers Freddie Meyer and Kitty Ellison meet at the newly opened Dunes Hotel and Casino, where they both work. Beck and his team have barely begun their investigation when the FBI storms in, in the person of stylish, no-nonsense Special Agent Sana Locke. ![]() Retired FBI agent Ralph Atterbury has been bound to the recliner in his home and systematically tortured. Sheriff Porter Beck, whose jurisdiction is sparsely populated Lincoln County, north of Las Vegas, is called to the scene of a singularly savage crime. An unspeakably brutal contemporary murder has roots in the 1950s. ![]()
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