Uranium is always falling apart, it's constantly disintegrating. The nucleus is built too large. It seems to have transgressed this invisible kind of limit of nature. In my book I call it a "geological original sin."
How would you expect a detective to solve a murder without using any of today's modern forensic evidence tools? Well, they had to do it somehow -- and in this historical mystery Bernard Cornwell imagines what the task must have been like in Regency England.
Uranium is always falling apart, it's constantly disintegrating. The nucleus is built too large. It seems to have transgressed this invisible kind of limit of nature. In my book I call it a "geological original sin." 
