The Blue Death
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- Synopsis
- He sank into mud up to his ankles, carried her out into the water until he could feel an undercurrent, held her head under until she stopped breathing, let her go. For generations the Freyls have ruled Springfield, Illinois, capital of a state of great lakes and rivers. Now convicted killer David Marion threatens their invincibility, and he threatens it from within their own ranks. In prison, his savage fury kept him at the top of the hierarchy, but he needed those bars. Without them, he's spiraling out of control. Water: it's blue gold, and the price on world markets is soaring. When Springfield gets a new mayor, this mostly comfortable, well-to-do community finds its supply under threat, not only from corporations out for the money and the life-and-death power that come with 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, at least not until his own past surfaces and he finds himself caught between multinational leviathans at war over America's heartland. Revealing the inner workings of a claustrophobic social elite with all its tricks, entitlements and scheming, Brady takes us into the heart of a community and a family where innocence can backfire and where fear is the only effective weapon. [author photo] Joan Brady was the first woman to win the Whitbread Book of the Year (now Costa) for her novel, Theory of War, also the recipient of France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. Critics hailed it as a 'modern work of genius'. She is the author of an autobiography, The Unmaking of a Dancer, and of the highly-acclaimed novels, Death Comes for Peter Pan and The Émigré. The Blue Death is the third of her thrillers which include the internationally bestselling Bleedout and Venom.
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780857204332
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Date of Addition:
- 09/27/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Joan Brady
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.