title: Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
author:  Richard Rhodes 
description: Richard Rhodes has written four novels and eight previous works of history and letters. He lives in rural Connecticut.
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  **Shard Calls the Tune**
  
  **Philip McCutchan**
  
    
  
  © Philip McCutchan, 1981
  
  Philip McCutchan has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Design and
  Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  First published in 1981 by Hodder & Stoughton Limited.
  
  This edition published in 2018 by Endeavour Press Ltd.
  
    
  
  **Table of Contents**
  
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  **1**
  
  The fat, pink-faced man sitting like an anaemic salmon in the Inter-City as it
  pulled smoothly into Paddington, knew that he was possessed of a bomb.
  Mishandled, that bomb, like all bombs, could explode in his face; but, as
  ever, there was the other side of the coin. The pink-faced man’s eyes
  glistened and a tongue emerged from his mouth to wet full red lips, after
  which they glistened also in London’s afternoon sun. Without seeing her, the
  eyes stared towards their owner’s secretary, primly seated in the window seat
  dia