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Due Preparations for the Plague Library Edition

"The latest novel is an enthralling tale ... elaborate and poignant tragic plot" Publishers Weekly. "Unputdownable ... does for post September 11 era what John le Carre did for the Cold War" Time Out New York "One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today" Times Literary Supplement Lowell tries not to think about the past and the hijaking that killed his mother. Samantha, on the other hand, cannot let go. As a child she survived the hijaking of Air France Flight 64, and as an adult she obsessively digs for answers. But in this murky world of endless aliases and surveillance, who can be trusted? When does the quest for truth become a dangerous obsession? And what difference can the truth make?

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  • ""The latest novel is an enthralling tale ... elaborate and poignant tragic plot" Publishers Weekly. "Unputdownable ... does for post September 11 era what John le Carre did for the Cold War" Time Out New York "One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today" Times Literary Supplement Lowell tries not to think about the past and the hijaking that killed his mother. Samantha, on the other hand, cannot let go. As a child she survived the hijaking of Air France Flight 64, and as an adult she obsessively digs for answers. But in this murky world of endless aliases and surveillance, who can be trusted? When does the quest for truth become a dangerous obsession? And what difference can the truth make?"@en
  • "Lowell tries not to think about the hijacking that killed his mother. Samantha, on the other hand, survived a hijacking as a child and cannot let it go. It is the death of Lowell's father and his legacy of documents and videos that finally brings Lowell and Samantha together and unravels the connections between victims and perpetrators, saved and damned."@en
  • "Lowell tries not to think about the past and the hijacking that killed his mother. Samantha, on the other hand, cannot let go. As a child she survived the hijacking of Air France Flight 64, and as an adult she obsessively digs for answers, seeking a man called Salamander whom she believes holds key information. It is the death of Lowell's father, and his legacy of a blue sports bag crammed with documents and videotapes, that finally brings Lowell and Samantha together and unravels the interconnections between victims and perpetrators, saved and damned. But in this murky world of endless aliases and surveillance, who can be trusted? When does the quest for truth become a dangerous obsession? And what difference can the truth make? Janette Turner Hospital has crafted a taut and confronting novel that propels us into the chaos of terror and the cruelty - and unexpected hope - of survival."
  • "Lowell tries not to think about the past and the hijaking that killed his mother. Samantha, on the other hand, cannot let go. As a child she survived the hijaking of Air France Flight 64, and as an adult she obsessively digs for answers. Seeking a man called Salamander whom she believes holds key information. It is the death of Lowell's father, and his legacy of a blue sports bag crammed with documents and videotapes, that finally brings Lowell and Samantha together and unravels the interconnections between victims and perpetrators, saved and damned."@en
  • "Lowell, a single father, is haunted by the memory of a hijacked Paris -- New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager. A stranger, Samantha, has recently begun harassing him with phone calls about information from declassified documents. She is obsessed with learning the whole truth about Air France 64. "I was on that flight. I was six years old. I have a right," she says. "What can be worse than not knowing?" It is the death of Lowell's father, and his legacy of a blue sports bag crammed with documents and videotapes, that finally convinces Lowell to join Samantha's search for a shadowy figure called Salamander, a man she believes was a sinister key figure in the tragedy."@en
  • "Lowell tries not to think about the past and the hijaking that killed his mother. Samantha, on the other hand, cannot let go. As a child she survived the hijaking of Air France Flight 64, and as an adult she obsessively digs for answers. Seeking a man called Salamander whom she believes holds key information. It is the death of Lowell's father, and his legacy of a blue sports bag crammed with documents and videotapes, that finally brings Lowell and Samantha together and unravels the interconnections between victims and perpetrators, saved and damned."
  • "Lowell is haunted by the memory of a hijacked Paris-New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager. A stranger, Samantha, has been calling him about information from the declassified documents, obsessed with learning the truth about Air France 64."@en

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  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Due Preparations for the Plague Library Edition"@en
  • "Due preparations for the plague"
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  • "Due preparations for the plague a novel"@en
  • "Due Preparations for the Plague"@en

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