Rocket Lake

In 1953, a small lakesiide community is shocked by the brutal murder of a young mother. Local police initially believe the crime to be a case of domestic violence by the husband. The case, however, goes cold for nearly a year until the arrival of a stranger, come to take custody of seven-year old Johnny "D," who witnessed his mother's murder. New evidence prompts three unlikely allies to work to solve the case: a wise-cracking policeman, a frail, Holocaust survivor, and a former German rocket scientist. Was the murder tied to Nazi war crimes related to the construction of Hitler's V-2 rocket program? Blackmail and a government coverup are part of this tale that bears witness to the postwar space race between the U.S. and Russia to get a spacecraft to orbit. Meanwhile, young Johnny must adjust to a new home and guardian, while continuing to be an adventuous, inquisitive boy in a cultural era fascinated with evolving aerospace technology. 9781312118690 1312118695 348 Fiction NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=wOmcoAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Thomas Terlizzi
• • Publisher: Lulu.Com
• • Publication Date: Jun 04, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 347 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1312118695
• • ISBN-13: 9781312118690