To Kill the Truth

To Kill the Truth

Einband:
Poche format B
EAN:
9781787474925
Untertitel:
Englisch
Genre:
Krimis, Thriller & Horror
Autor:
Sam Bourne
Herausgeber:
Quercus
Anzahl Seiten:
464
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.08.2019
ISBN:
1787474925

THE NEW BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE EXPLOSIVE BESTSELLER TO KILL THE PRESIDENT 'Riveting' Sunday Times , Thriller of the Month 'Propulsive' Guardian 'Provocative' Mail on Sunday Someone is trying to destroy the evidence of history's greatest crimes. Academics and Holocaust survivors dead in mysterious circumstances. Museums and libraries burning. Digital records and irreplaceable proofs, lost for ever. Former White House operative Maggie Costello has sworn off politics. But when the Governor of Virginia seeks her help to stop the lethal spiral of killings, she knows that this is bigger than any political game. As Black Lives Matter protestors clash with slavery deniers, America is on a knife-edge and time is running out. This deadly conspiracy could ignite a new Civil War - but who stands to gain most from the chaos? Taut, authoritative and explosive, To Kill the Truth takes us to the edge of anarchy, a world without truth in which history will be rewritten by those who live to shape it. Praise for Sam Bourne: 'In To Kill the Truth, Maggie Costello rivetingly tackles a cabal of Holocaust and slavery deniers, whose aim is nothing less than to destroy memory' Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month 'A propulsive plot and an appealing heroine . . . The premise is both intriguing and, in the current climate of post-truth, fake news and sour populism, grimly topical' Guardian 'Chilling . . . You think today's news is nightmarish enough? Sam Bourne's provocative thriller imagines things getting much, much worse' Mail on Sunday 'Urgently topical' The Times 'A Day of the Jackal for these dizzying times' Ian Rankin

To Kill The Truth presents a frightening glimpse of where the current fake news agenda could lead

Autorentext
Sam Bourne is the pseudonym of award-winning journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland, who writes a weekly column for the Guardian and is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View. He served for four years as the Guardian's Washington correspondent, covered the 2016 US election campaign, and is covering the 2020 campaign. He is a widely respected commentator on American affairs.

His previous seven internationally bestselling novels have sold over two million copies and been published in over thirty languages.

Klappentext
A taut and authoritative contemporary thriller in which a series of killings position an America defined by the conflicts of the news today at the precipice of civil war. Museums and libraries burn as someone attempts to erase history's greatest crimes.


Zusammenfassung
Taut, authoritative and explosive, To Kill the Truth takes us to the edge of anarchy, a world without truth in which history will be re-written by those who live to shape it.


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