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The Dying Light

A chilling thriller of the police-state that the UK is about to become ... from 'one of the masters of the genre' [SUNDAY TELEGRAPH].

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  • "At his funeral the bells of the church were rung open rather than half-muffled, as is usual for the dead. Kate Lockhart has come with corporate leaders, ministers and intelligence chiefs to a beautiful town in the Welsh Marches to mourn her soul mate, David Eyam, the brightest government servant of his generation."
  • "De Britse regering dreigt de hele bevolking in een groot gevaarlijk computersysteem onder te brengen."
  • "A chilling thriller of the police-state that the UK is about to become ... from 'one of the masters of the genre' [SUNDAY TELEGRAPH]."@en
  • "The most shocking political thriller of the year. Former intelligence officer Kate Lockhart joins the congregation of corporate leaders, ministers and spies to mourn David Eyam, her ex-lover and one of the best minds of her generation. Then she learns of her soulmate's last will and testament - a dangerous legacy that certain member of the congregation will do absolutely anything to suppress. As she struggles to find meaning in his bequest to her, with her life at risk and only the fragments of Eyam's shattered existence to help her, she's about to find out whether the state is a match for the genius of the dead ..."
  • "Former intelligence officer Kate Lockhart joins the congregation of corporate leaders, ministers and spies to mourn David Eyam, her ex-lover and one of the best minds of her generation. Then she learns of her soulmate's last will and testament-- a dangerous legacy that certain members of the congregation will do absolutely anything to suppress. A political thriller."@en
  • "Kate Lockhart has come along with corporate leaders, ministers and intelligence chiefs to a beautiful town in the Welsh Marches to mourn her soul mate, David Eyam, the brightest government servant of his generation. Eyam has left a devastating legacy which certain people at the funeral are desperate to suppress - but Kate is equal to Eyam's legacy. She becomes the focus of the state's paranoiac power and leads the local resistance to it, directed from beyond the grave by Eyam. And the state is no match for the genius of the dead..."

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  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Spy stories"
  • "Espionage & spy thriller"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Ausgabe"

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  • "The Dying Light"@en
  • "Lumière de fin"
  • "The dying light"
  • "The dying light"@en
  • "Lumière de fin : roman"

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