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Jeffrey Deaver
The Blue Death
Water: it’s blue gold. The price on world markets is soaring, and Springfield, capital of the state of Illinois, is running dry. While corporate sharks circle and manoeuvre for position, the town’s pampered Western elite find themselves suddenly plunged into a Third Word catastrophe.
A cardinal amongst writers
Independent
Joan Brady writes like an angel
Mail on Sunday
Joan Brady was the first woman to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Award (now Costa) with Theory of War. She lives in Oxford but was born in California and danced with the New York City Ballet in her twenties, a story she tells in her highly-acclaimed autobiography The Unmaking of a Dancer. Long-listed for the Orange Prize with her novel Death Comes for Peter Pan, she turned to thriller writing in 2005, pouring rage and passion onto the page with terrifying results.
The Blue Death electrifies as her new thriller. It follows on from her critically acclaimed Bleedout and Venom.
The Blue Death electrifies as her new thriller. It follows on from her critically acclaimed Bleedout and Venom.
A writer of enormous ability and harrowing power
Mail on Sunday
This is a thriller with iron in its soul:
For generations the Freyls have ruled Springfield, Illinois; they’re a claustrophobic social elite, fed on tricks, entitlements and scheming in a capital where politicians from all over the state are making deals worth millions of dollars under tables at every café, restaurant, club. Now convicted killer, David Marion, threatens the town’s invincible hierarchy from within its own ranks.
Water: it’s blue gold. Its price on world markets is soaring, and boardroom battles over ownership are steadily dividing up the world’s supply. When Springfield gets a new mayor, this mostly comfortable, well-to-do community finds its supply under threat, not only from corporations out for global control but from a disease that appears from nowhere, that nobody can identify and nobody can treat.
None of these things interests David Marion, not even blue gold, until his own past surfaces and he finds himself caught between multinational leviathans at war over America’s heartland.
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For generations the Freyls have ruled Springfield, Illinois; they’re a claustrophobic social elite, fed on tricks, entitlements and scheming in a capital where politicians from all over the state are making deals worth millions of dollars under tables at every café, restaurant, club. Now convicted killer, David Marion, threatens the town’s invincible hierarchy from within its own ranks.
Water: it’s blue gold. Its price on world markets is soaring, and boardroom battles over ownership are steadily dividing up the world’s supply. When Springfield gets a new mayor, this mostly comfortable, well-to-do community finds its supply under threat, not only from corporations out for global control but from a disease that appears from nowhere, that nobody can identify and nobody can treat.
None of these things interests David Marion, not even blue gold, until his own past surfaces and he finds himself caught between multinational leviathans at war over America’s heartland.
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