The Pelican Brief/Treasures/Eye of the Storm/The Island Harp

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FAILURE BY A SPLIT SECOND
Last year the IRA came within forty feet of blowing up number Ten Downing Street in an audacious assassination attempt. British prime minister John Major and his colleagues, who were meeting at the time, dived under a table to escape the blast, then calmly continued their meeting in another room after first calling home to assure their families of their safety.
High drama indeed. And for best-selling author Jack Hig-gins, the foundation on which he would build his next book. It would become Eye of the Storm, his exciting and timely new novel, which begins on page 325 of this volume.
For Jack Higgins and many other popular authors, the news of the day often inspires the novels of tomorrow. Whether it's the birth of a baby, a business's rise, or a nation's fall, all it need do is sow a seed. Then our authors are off and running, molding reality, fleshing it out with people and motivations, until the narrow incident takes on a full-fledged life of... Tovább

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FAILURE BY A SPLIT SECOND
Last year the IRA came within forty feet of blowing up number Ten Downing Street in an audacious assassination attempt. British prime minister John Major and his colleagues, who were meeting at the time, dived under a table to escape the blast, then calmly continued their meeting in another room after first calling home to assure their families of their safety.
High drama indeed. And for best-selling author Jack Hig-gins, the foundation on which he would build his next book. It would become Eye of the Storm, his exciting and timely new novel, which begins on page 325 of this volume.
For Jack Higgins and many other popular authors, the news of the day often inspires the novels of tomorrow. Whether it's the birth of a baby, a business's rise, or a nation's fall, all it need do is sow a seed. Then our authors are off and running, molding reality, fleshing it out with people and motivations, until the narrow incident takes on a full-fledged life of its own.
That's because fiction, aside from entertaining us, has the power to make us think about past events in fresh ways. It can foster an understanding of events of old, then whet our appetite for new insights to come. And it can show us what the world might be like if things happened the way the novelist sees them—through a rich and colorful prism, where the imagination runs free and anything is possible.
—The Editors Vissza