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In James Munves's novel Andes Rising the reader is confronted with a mystery. What happened to Thomas Cooper? A scientist who had worked on the Manhattan Project and attended the disarmament conference following World War II, he had quit his job, left his family, and gone off to Colombia, South America, on an ornithological project undertaken by the Peace Corps. His friends and family have lost all track of him. Finally his mother persuades her rabbi to go down to Colombia and find out if Thomas is dead or alive. What the rabbi eventually finds is Thomas's journal filled with notes about his…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1999New Directions · 189 pages · 9780811214070
RabbisPeace Corps (U.S.)FictionOrnithologySouth america, fictionFiction, mystery & detective, generalNew York Times reviewed