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Ascension de Oliver Harris

Ascension

Autor Oliver Harris
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 iul 2021
[extract] It wasn't just a question of sharpness, Kane thought. Missions like this took a particular kind of willpower. A suspension of disbelief. He knew men braver than any, the ones you sent in when no one else would go, who one day kitted up and couldn't walk out the door. And they had to step away from the front line forever because-this was Kane's analysis-they had become sane: suddenly, painfully sane. They didn't crave the cocktail of testosterone and adrenaline that overrode this sanity, couldn't justify the willingness to inflict pain on others. They were healed.

Praise for A Shadow Intelligence

'Tremendous' Sunday Times Crime Club star pick

'Elliott Kane is an unusually thoughtful spy... As much a thinker as a doer, Kane has much in common with le Carré's Jerry Westerby' Irish Times


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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408709955
ISBN-10: 1408709953
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 158 x 236 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group

Notă biografică

Oliver Harris was born in London but now lives in Manchester. He is the author of the Nick Belsey series of crime novels, plus two novels featuring MI6 officer Elliot Kane. He teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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A brilliant and gripping literary thriller, set on Ascension Island - one of the remotest places in the world...

Recenzii

PRAISE FOR A SHADOW INTELLIGENCE  AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020   “Thought-provoking...there’s certainly more than enough sharp writing and provocative content in this initial adventure to justify a sequel.” —Wall Street Journal   “This may be the deepest a contemporary spy novel has penetrated the cold new world of dark web intelligence and cellphone surveillance…. An absorbing, superbly written novel likely to stand as one of the best spy novels of the year.” —Kirkus, starred review   “Oliver Harris is always pure quality and I’m loving the hell out of his foray into the contemporary spy novel. Elegant and compulsive.” —Ian Rankin   “Elliot Kane needs his wits about him to keep track of his own identities and those of fellow MI6 agent Joanna, who he's looking for in Kazakhstan. The binary simplicity of the Cold War has been replaced by a geopolitical Rubik's cube of corruption, nationalism, oil money and internet deceit. Tremendous evocation of modern Kazakhstan and the contemporary intelligence landscape. Scary if true, or even half true.” —Sunday Times Crime Club, star pick   “Elliott Kane is an unusually thoughtful spy . . . As much a thinker as a doer, Kane has much in common with le Carré's Jerry Westerby or Lionel Davidson's Johnny Porter, a plausibly multi-faceted old school operator with the skills—physical, psychological, intellectual—to negotiate the geopolitical fault lines of central Asia as Russia and China square up over Kazahstan's untapped oil reserves.” —Irish Times   “A Middle East specialist, flies to Astana in Kazakhstan to search for his former colleague and lover Joanna, and gets caught up in the jostling for power, deals and intelligence in a city portrayed as becoming a 21st-century mecca for spooks . . . Classier writing, fresher characters, original setting, a real sense of insider lore (on both spycraft and geopolitics).” —Sunday Times   “A splendid thriller with new perspectives on places and the distinctly unclean side of the great game of espionage.” —Crime Time (Blog)   “A gripping, fast-moving and intelligent novel from new spy fiction star Oliver Harris which will leave readers wanting a lot more Elliot Kane adventures.” —Irish Independent   “Elliot Kane is highly-trained MI6 spook. So highly-trained that he's pretty much forgotten who the hell he really is after years of false identities and subterfuge . . . In a deadly world of deception by just about every nasty state, and that includes his own, he's truly up against it in this complex thriller that keeps you on your toes throughout." —Sunday Sport, four stars   “An intelligent and thoroughly researched spy-procedural giving razor-sharp insight into the particular challenges of 21st-century espionage." —Big Issue   “A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London and a beguiling bastard of a hero.” —Val McDermid on The Hollow Man —