Yonatan:
Intuition:
Allegra Goodman.
A great tale of academic dishonesty in a Harvard lab, which takes place just about the time we lived in Boston.
This is a great novel by a truly great novelist. Apparently it is a rather thinly disguised account of a true case concerning David Baltimore but I can't comment on that. The story is quite believable and the interaction of all the characters is close to life. I know you don't remember but when I was at HMS I really felt that people did not make eye contact in case you stole their ideas out of their brains. I never worked on anything this critical and was never tempted by raw ambition to fake anything. Honestly if it is such important work the chances of someone trying to repeat your experiments is so high that exposure is inevitable.
Noam:
Sharpe's Tiger
Bernard Cornwall
I thought you could do with some swashbuckling fiction. This is, in my opinion, second only to the Aubrey-Maturin series in historical fiction. We follow the adventures of rifleman Sharpe, through a number of wars ending with the Napoleonic wars in Portugal and beyond. Our first destination is India where he is posted after enlistment. This book is a little more wild than the later ones of which there are 24!(I just finished the last one). Many of these were made into PBS specials with Sean Bean as Sharpe. This one was never dramatized, I am guessing the sets would have been too expensive. It has some similarities with the crazy adventures of the Flashman series but this one is more historically accurate and gets more down to earth. On the minus side there is less sex in Sharpe.
