The Search for Harry C

About the Book

Harry Connors is at Penn State and in love with Sarah, a fellow student. They marry shortly after they are graduated. He gets a job with a contract agency of the Atomic Energy Commission involved in research programs related to atom bomb radiation effects, trigger devices and other secret projects. Harry´s work takes him to New Mexico, Philadelphia Naval Air Station and Indian Springs Air Force Base, Nevada.

On the day that Harry disappears, a test atom bomb is detonated, an unmanned plane flown near the mushroom cloud to collect data explodes and a top-secret plan goes missing. Harry is never found and the government´s investigation circumstantially determines that Harry was an agent of the Soviet Union.

Sarah, pregnant, returns to Pennsylvania.  Four decades later, Harry´s son, Adam, sets out on an intriguing mission to find out what happened to his father. Along the way, with the help of his fiancee and two of his father´s fraternity brothers, he finds an aged member of the Russian spy machine, ex coworkers and a host of some very odd folks.

About the Author

The authors participated in the atom bomb radiation and drone programs at the Desert Rock, Nevada Test Site in 1953. Both are Penn State graduates and U. S. Navy veterans. Altshuler worked Psychoacoustics and Audiology as a professor in a Philadelphia medical school and hospital. Susson was a senior engineer at NASA and helped install the Ballistic Missile Early Warning Systems in Greenland and Great Britain and more recently worked in the private sector.