Reconstruction

Zusatztext Praise for Reconstruction “Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way! which is why his new novel! Reconstruction ! reads as much like a puzzle mystery as it does a thriller . . . unpleasant things are bound to happen! and they do—but not until Herron has finished surprising us.” —The New York Times Book Review "Masterful . . . How Herron is able to tie all these events together will test the sleuthing ability of even the most savvy readers as one surprise engenders another. The intricate plot! coupled with Herron’s breezy writing style . . . results in superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison." —Publishers Weekly ! Starred Review "Ingenious and heartfelt." —Kirkus Reviews "In Herron's complex story everyone is a reconstructionist! either of their own baggage or of other people's lives or of the events around them . . . Spellbinding." —Mysterious Reviews “ Reconstruction sizzles and dazzles as readers slowly become more fully aware of the unique relationships between complex characters in this complicated tale.” —BookLoons Praise for Mick Herron "Stylish and engaging." — Washington Post “Tough! bright and highly promising.” — Chicago Tribune   “Good characterization! dialogue and well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible.” —Daily Telegraph Informationen zum Autor Mick Herron Klappentext In this chillingly plausible thriller by CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron, "there is no hiding under the desk" (The New York Times Book Review). When a gunman breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura isn't there on a homicidal mission, and he's just as scared as those whose lives he holds as collateral. As an armed police presence builds outside the school's gates, the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 accountant who worked with Jaime's lover, Miro. Miro's gone missing, along with a quarter of a billion pounds allotted for reconstruction work in Iraq. Jaime refuses to believe that Miro is a thief-though he's always had his secrets. But then, so does Louise, so do the other hostages-and so do some people on the outside, who'd much rather Jaime was silenced.In cartoons, when the alarm rings, the cat, mouse, dog, whatever, hauls a mallet from under the pillow and BAM!—cogs, levers and coils go everywhere; the clock face droops from its casing like a cuckoo on a spring . . . Morning is broken. In the real world, you simply reach a slow hand out and depress the button so the ringing stops. And for the moment it takes this to happen, you’re held between two worlds: the dream life in which mallets are hidden under pillows by pyjama-clad animals, and the default waking mode in which you blink twice, remember who you are, and feel detail seep back into you the way light infiltrates the room—you’re Louise Kennedy, you’re thirty-two years old, and today is either the first day of the rest of your life or the last day of your old one, depending on how things work out. It’s Tuesday, April 3rd. The weather’s set for fair. Sunlight has already reached the bedspread, drawing upon it a range of shadow mountains whose outcrops and valleys exactly match the folds and ridges of the curtaintops. It’s time to get up. It’s time to get up.      Louise muffles a sigh, and pulls herself out of bed.     6:45.     This is where it begins. And this, too, is where it begins; an hour earlier, and some five miles from Louise’s bed: in...

Product details

• Authors: Mick Herron
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2015
• EAN: 9781616955878
• ISBN: 978-1-61695-587-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 209 mm x 21 mm
• Series: The Oxford Series; OXFORD; The Oxford Series
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense