Mortal Crime: the Greatest Theft in History – The Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project

First edition, first impression.  xxii, 278pp, with monochrome illustrations in text.  Navy blue paper-covered boards with bright gilt lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original laminated, illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, a little bumped at edges and a few scattered, mild scratch marks on rear panel.

For the first time, Nigel West reveals the detailed investigations conducted on both sides of the Atlantic by MI5, the FBI and the US military counterintelligence, disclosing the secret cooperation of some of the suspects, the evidence that was accumulated against some of the most revered names in nuclear physics, and describes the unprecedented scale of the NKVD’s networks and their efforts to recruit and cultivate spy-rings at Berkeley, Los Alamos, New York, Montreal and Chicago in an operation code-named ENORMOZ.