The small back room

About “The small back room”

The small back room is a 20th-century novel about Sammy Rice, a weapons scientist who worked as one of the "backroom boys" during World War Two. When the enemy begins dropping a new form of booby bomb that causes terrible casualties, Sammy must use his expertise to defuse the devices, confronting his crippling disability, cynicism, and self-doubt in the process.