7/7/2023 0 Comments Dot Dead by Keith Raffel![]() But in the midst of Silicon Valley, the very place where scientists first identified the particles that make up everything in the universe is a warehouse. Where the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk is a national memorial. Now, Edison’s lab is a national monument. And you know what? It’s filled with dusty boxes. I took a tour of the building at SLAC where those revolutionary discoveries were made four decades ago. Back in the 1960s it was the center of world particle physics research, the place where the building blocks of the universe were discovered. The accelerator at Stanford is a two-mile long rifle barrel that shoots electrons at its targets at over 99% of the speed of light. I’m intrigued (and let’s face it an ignoramus) when it comes to physics – what research did you have to do (or how sexy is the Stanford Linear Accelerator really?) And then while the couple is on an early-morning run, a car comes out of the darkness and smashes Ian’s leg and leaves Rowena in a coma. Ian’s mom is insisting that he get credit for her dead aunt who made a major discovery in particle physics. Rowena, a deputy district attorney, is trying her first homicide. Ian’s facing a “smash and grab” for his company engineered by a Silicon Val ley billionaire. So Keith, what can readers of your first book, Dot Dead, expect from Smasher? What’s in store this time for Ian and Rowena? ![]()
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