{"product_id":"9780759510708","title":"A Hole in Texas","description":"From the legendary bestselling author, a rollicking Washington novel about a media firestorm swirling around a vast hole in Texas and one obscure NASA scientist who gets swept up in the vortex and becomes a national figure overnight.\u003cp\u003eGuy Carpenter is a physicist with a quiet, settled life: a prestigious job at NASA, a devoted wife and new baby, and a troublemaking cat. But he is about to get mixed up in an international scandal of enormous proportions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears ago, Guy worked on the Superconducting Super Collider, a giant scientific project dedicated to detecting a tiny, elusive particle, the Higgs Boson. Wrangling in Congress shut the project down before it could fulfill its objective, but now the Chinese claim to have found the Boson—a discovery that sends the nation into a panic. How did the Chinese surpass American science? What about the horrific military implications of a Boson Bomb? Is it time to start casting Hollywood's first Boson blockbuster? An expert is needed to assess the new threat to national security.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore he knows it, Carpenter is propelled into the center of the media blitz, his old love with a Chinese female physicist resurfaces, a new romance with a beautiful Congresswoman beckons, and the breakup of his happy marriage threatens. In the meantime, Congress holds urgent hearings, Hollywood comes courting, and an unctuous reporter dogs his every step. It's going to be anything but a typical few weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce again, Herman Wouk exercises his deep insight and considerable comic powers to give us a witty and keen satire about Washington, the media, and science, and what happens when these three great forces of American culture clash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerman Wouk'sacclaimed novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Caine Mutiny; Marjorie Morningstar; Don't Stop the Carnival; Youngblood Hawke; The Winds of War; War and Remembrance; Inside, Outside; The Hope; and The Glory. He lives in Palm Springs.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067823341808,"sku":"9780759510708","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780759510708_p0.jpg?v=1763642107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780759510708","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}