Beneath the diamond sky (dedikált példány)

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PRAISE FOR ON CAPE THREE POINTS'.
'Subtle and intense sucks you in like a dream and holds you like a nightmare. One of the year's key debuts' Lee Child, bestselling author of Killing Floor and Die Trying
'Accomplished and page-turning a smart novel about identity, with a protagonist largely in flight from himself' Guardian
'A pulsing debut thriller Like the best espionage thrillers Wakling's taut debut is a study of human foibles, with a vivid and all too fallible hero at its centre' Publishers Weekly
'With brilliant writing and a terrific plot, On Cape Three Points is that rare thing a genuine literary thriller' Sid Smith, author of Something Like a House
(Whitbread First Novel Award 2001)
'A corporate thriller made all the more suspenseful for its Hitchcockian subtlety, a novel with excitements that are ultimately more character-driven and moral than circumstantial' Andrew Pyper, bestselling author of The Trade Mission and Lost Girls
The balaclava twisted towards... Tovább

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PRAISE FOR ON CAPE THREE POINTS'.
'Subtle and intense sucks you in like a dream and holds you like a nightmare. One of the year's key debuts' Lee Child, bestselling author of Killing Floor and Die Trying
'Accomplished and page-turning a smart novel about identity, with a protagonist largely in flight from himself' Guardian
'A pulsing debut thriller Like the best espionage thrillers Wakling's taut debut is a study of human foibles, with a vivid and all too fallible hero at its centre' Publishers Weekly
'With brilliant writing and a terrific plot, On Cape Three Points is that rare thing a genuine literary thriller' Sid Smith, author of Something Like a House
(Whitbread First Novel Award 2001)
'A corporate thriller made all the more suspenseful for its Hitchcockian subtlety, a novel with excitements that are ultimately more character-driven and moral than circumstantial' Andrew Pyper, bestselling author of The Trade Mission and Lost Girls
The balaclava twisted towards Kate, close enough for her to make out dark lashes and deep brown expressionless eyes. She held his gaze; the moment stretched .A sob rose in her throat, threatened to become audible, but was silenced by the banality of a trickle of sweat which, while she watched, ran from the man's brow into the corner of his eye.
Kashmir, the Himalayan foothills. Seven Westerners on a misguided trekking expedition are taken hostage by separatist militants. Kate Cox and Ethan Hughes, a troubled young English couple, are among their number. At the mercy of hardened ideologues they cannot understand, the captives are pushed into a claustrophobic hell of shifting allegiances, where love and survival seem destined to collide.
As the hostages struggle to hold themselves together, so those at home begin to fall apart. Rachel is tormented by the memory of her cold and dishonest relationship with her sister, Kate; Ethan's father, unwilling to confront cruel family truths, Is ready to blame everybody but himself. Redemption depends upon the hostages' safe return, but as the prospect of their release fades, so do their hopes of escape - and they already know the penalty for dissent
In the vein of Alex Garland's The Beach, Beneath the Diamond Sky is an absorbing psychological exploration of how character fragments under pressure. It is a beautifully written, blackly funny and terrifying read. Vissza