The premise had promise a murder of one of the people inviolved with the nations most secret project, the building of the first atomic bomb. The main thrust of the book is not the building or the interpersonal conflict that arise from the creation of the bomb, you learn nothing of it from the book. The point seems to be how often the main character can have sex with the wife of one of the bombs builders. Once the covert spying network is uncovered nothing happens. Great expectations, no delivery.