David Hewson - Page 2
Lucifer's Shadow
A major new novel set in the glittering musical worlds of seventeenth-century
and present-day Venice.
A young Englishman is given a summer job in Venice, cataloguing a library of old
music manuscripts. When he finds a lost masterpiece, he is drawn into a game of
deception, leading to a vertiginous spiral of criminal conspiracy and erotic
pursuit,with its roots in the political minefield of Vivaldi's Venice. Thus two stories,
centuries apart, are intercut and eventually drawn together in a stunning double-twist
ending that will leave the reader gasping for breath.
This amazing novel - complex, beautiful, suspenseful - surpasses all Hewson's
previous work.
David Hewson is a columnist for the Sunday Times and the author of four acclaimed
thrillers.
`Richly enjoyable, sophisticated and beguiling entertainment’ Sunday Times
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Native Rites
A countryside idyll… or a sinister, violent secret?
A young couple move to the country. Miles commutes each day to the city, leaving Alison to get to know the locals and recover from a difficult period in her life.
At weekends, Miles loves to be 'one of the lads' in the pub. Alison finds the ancient rhythms of country life altogether more unsettling.
Autumn comes, and with it the ancient bonfire festival. Alison could have been drunk, but she feels certain that she saw something terrible happen at the fire.
And her husband was involved.
Paranoia? Or a murderous conspiracy by an entire village?
Praise for Semana Santa
'The claustrophobia of an introverted society... is portrayed with subtle skill: the personal passions come across with intensity and power. Semana Santa is a satisfying full-blooded read' The Times
And Epiphany
'The atmosphere of mystery, menace and guilt is sustained with great skill, building tension to a seismic explosion as ghoulish characters squirm to escape a relentless past returning to destroy them'. Daily Telegraph
| Paperback - Harpercollins (1999) |
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Solstice
With an extraordinary pattern of solar events causing electro-magnetic mayhem across a panicking globe, a disparate group of scientists and military personnel is brought together at an observatory on the island of Mallorca. Among them is Michael Lieberman, whose maverick personality is tolerated only because he is a world authority on sun spots.
As the markets crash and aircraft fall from the sky, something catastrophic is happening here that not even Lieberman's brilliance can predict, and it soon becomes clear that he is not even being told everything the authorities already know - about a secret US solar experiment that is running out of control, or about the activities of a millennial cult run by his former lover.
The only certainty is that the solar pattern will peak at the summer solstice, in just four days' time …
Like his first two highly acclaimed novels, Semana Santa and Epiphany, Solstice is eerily atmospheric, superbly written and utterly compelling.
'A white-knuckle, high-velocity, adrenaline-pumping super-thriller' Joseph Garber
'Solstice is utterly terrifying in its plausibility! It's an up-until-dawn read, and David Hewson is a writer to watch' Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, bestselling authors of Relic and Riptide
'Exceptional ... boasts both remarkable literary flair and a finely honed sense for what keeps readers turning pages. Hewson is a master at building tension and intrigue' Vince Flynn, author of Term Limits
'A racehorse of a story about what happens when all too familiar technology is turned on humanity with unnerving consequences ... A disturbing, thought-provoking book that is perfectly suited for the end of the twentieth century' P.T.Deutermann, bestselling author of The Edge of Honor and Zero Option
'A fresh, clever, first-class thriller solidly grounded in twenty-first-century technologies' M.L.Dertouzos, author of What Will Be and Director, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
More Praise for David Hewson:
'The claustrophobia of an introverted society ... is portrayed with subtle skill: the personal passions come across with intensity and power. Semana Santa is a satisfying full-blooded read.' The Times
'The atmosphere of mystery, menace and guilt is sustained with great skill, building tension to a seismic explosion.' Daily Telegraph
'Hewson's inventiveness never flags… the characterisation and dialogue are way above thriller norms, and the science is ingenious and plausible' Sunday Times
'Richly imagined… packed with interesting scientific detail… as high-tech concepts go, they don't get much hotter than this… literally' Michael Cordy, author of the Miracle Strain
Native Rites