Book Review

A Hole in Texas

A Hole in Texas by Herman Wouk, published by Little, Brown

Reviewed by Mike Shea

May 2004

Buy it at BookPeople

In 1993 Congress killed the Superconducting Super Collider project outside Waxahachie and unwittingly provided prime fodder for Pulitzer prize winner HERMAN WOUK's new novel, A HOLE IN TEXAS (Little, Brown). Wouk constructs a tidy atom of a story, with an earnest American scientist, a beautiful Chinese physicist, a jealous wife, and conniving senators, all in orbit around this tale's $8 billion nucleus—a nearly abandoned tunnel out on the plains. A Hole in Texas is a quick read that serves double duty as an entertaining contemporary romp and a gently compelling argument for taking the project out of mothballs.

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