01962cam a2200337 i 4500 330303689 TxAuBib 20171006120000.0 140221s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780451468185 045146818X (OCoLC)870919580 TxAuBib rda Paretsky, Sara. Critical mass / Sara Paretsky. New York : Signet Select, [2014] ℗2014. xiv, 558 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A V.I. Warshawski novel"--Cover. "A Signet select book.". " New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. When Kitty's daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who, in turn, summons V.I. to help. The daughter's troubles turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg of lies, secrets, and silence, whose origins go back to the mad competition among America, Germany, Japan and England to develop the first atomic bomb. The secrets are old, but the people who continue to guard them today will not let go of them without a fight. "-- Provided by publisher. 20171006. Warshawski, V. I. (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women private investigators Illinois Chicago Fiction. Chicago (Ill) Fiction. Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction.