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Item Details
Title:
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THE DYING LIGHT
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By: |
Henry Porter |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£12.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0752874845 |
ISBN 13: |
9780752874845 |
Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
Pub. date: |
1 August, 2009 |
Pages: |
416 |
Description: |
One of the most important books of 2009. Henry Porter's new novel paints a chilling portrait of the police-state that the UK is about to become... |
Synopsis: |
At his funeral the bells of the church were rung open rather than half-muffled, as is usual for the dead. Kate Lockhart has come with corporate leaders, ministers and intelligence chiefs to a beautiful town in the Welsh Marches to mourn her soul mate, David Eyam, the brightest government servant of his generation. All that remains of Eyam are the burnt fragments of a man killed far from home in a devastating explosion. But Eyam has left a devastating legacy and certain members of the congregation on that bitterly cold March day are desperate to suppress it. A group of locals come to feel the full weight of the state's determination. Kate Lockhart, now a Mergers and Acquisitions lawyer from Manhattan but a former SIS officer in Indonesia is equal to Eyam's legacy . She becomes the focus of the state's paranoiac power and leads the local resistance to it, with all the cunning of her former trade, directed from beyond the grave by Eyam. The state is no match for the genius of the dead. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
Prizes: |
Short-listed for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2010 |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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