LA CONJURATION DE GoeTTINGEN

A sustained and cinematographic rhythm, and an advanced literature about 50's: McCarthyism, Cold Ward

June 1954. We found William Wien's corpse, Princeton University assistant bookseller. He's been murdered. But before to dire, he wrote on a stele the Greek letter Epsilon. With his own blood
Inspector Michael Rumford discovers little by little this murder isn't banal. Every lead seem in fact to converge to the prestigious Institute of Advanced Studies and its famous director, Robert Oppenheimer, father of nuclear bomb, caught in a vice between past Nazis criminal and a group of scientists
with a muddled past
But why is Edgar Hoover, FBI boss, so interested by the famous physician Albert Einstein? Does he try to hide the true story of the race to atom? So many questions that Rumford thought never to ask to himself
By mixing suspense, historical facts and scientific aims, this novel plunges the read into the heart of Cold War and McCarthyism. And during the reading, one nagging question: and if everything was true?

Born in Paris in 1974, Jérôme Legras works in finance since 1998. He moved to England in 2013. He's married and the father of four children, and keeps being a great fan of crime novels as physics.