A hole in Texas

Description:

With this rollicking novel-hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity-one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture--politics, big science, and the media--spectacularly collide.

subjects: Man-woman relationships,  National security,  Literature,  Officials and employees,  Satire,  Fiction,  United States,  Science fiction,  United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration,  Physicists,  Superconducting Super Collider,  Scientists,  Domestic fiction,  Humorous fiction,  Higgs bosons,  Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction,  Fiction, suspense,  Fiction, humorous,  Texas, fiction,  Scientists, fiction,  Fiction, science fiction, general,  Fiction, humorous, general,  Fiction, general

Places: Washington (D.C.),  Texas,  United States