The Dying Light - Couverture souple

Henry Porter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0752876384 ISBN 13 : 9780752876382

Editeur : ORION UK, 2009

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

If the best thrillers should disrupt all sense of cosy complacency, Henry Porter's The Dying Light made just emerging from under the duvet seem a risky prospect. The author and Observer political commentator has woven an upsetting truth into his fiercely intelligent tale of a near-future, police-state Britain - all the legislation necessary to create the "technological totalitarianism" he depicts is already in place (METRO)

A vibrant thriller dealing with some of the great concerns of his [Porter's] journalistic career: the surveillance state and the erosion of individual liberty. Although set in the future, it feels as up-to-the-minute as tomorrow's headlines (NEW STATESMAN)

A tense, intelligent conspiracy thriller set in a horribly plausible future-present Britain where surveillance is so pervasive that it's impossible to do anything unobserved (THE GUARDIAN)

Porter rails against that very British apathy which has already allowed the state to pass all the legislation necessary to turn his dystopian nightmare into reality - the same apathy, ironically, which makes such nakedly polemical British novels so rare, and welcome (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

For those who like political thrillers, this is one of the season's best: scary, informative and, alas, eminently believable (ECONOMIST)

A compelling thriller which at the same time is a persuasive polemic about the threat to civil liberties in the United Kingdom (LITERARY REVIEW)

The book is a salutary warning of what happens when big business and politics end up in bed together. I'm sure some with think Porter to be paranoid. The rest of us will feel it's terrifyingly plausible (REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE.COM)

Porter has all the talents of a good thriller writer, particularly strong, crisp characterisation and the ability seamlessly to blend action and expertise. What really stands out in this novel, though, is the grimly plausible glimpse he gives us of a future that is already creeping up on us: a United Kingdom where elements of government and corporate interests are combining to monitor and ultimately control the lives of the country's citizens (SPECTATOR)

Beautifully written, sophisticated thriller (BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH)

Set in a mdoern Britain where surveillance reigns like the one remaining eye of God, this is a tense and claustrophobic conspiracy thriller. (CATHOLIC HERALD)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

At his funeral the bells of the church were rung open rather than half-muffled, as is usual for the dead. Jessica 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 states determination. Jessica Lockhart, now a Mergers and Acquisitions lawyer from Manhattan but a former SIS officer in Indonesia is equal to Eyams legacy . She becomes the focus of the states 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: ORION UK
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0752876384
• ISBN 13: 9780752876382
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400