Thriller / suspense
Reconciliation For The Dead
by Paul E Hardisty
Description
Sequel to the critically acclaimed The Abrupt Physics of Dying and The Evolution of Fear. Vigilante justice-seeker Claremore Straker, fresh from events in Yemen and Cyprus, is back in another gripping, socially conscious thriller. Seeking absolution for the sins of his past he returns to South Africa to recount the shattering events that led to his dishonourable discharge and exile, fifteen years earlier. Exploring true events from one of the most hateful chapters in South Africa's history, Reconciliation for the Dead is a shocking, explosive and gripping thriller.
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World, English
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Author shortlisted for the CWA John Creasy Dagger•Audio book by Audible•Author appearing at Newcastle Noir, CrimeFest, & mini tour of UK•BBC World Service interview & lots of media attention expected
Endorsements
A solid, meaty thriller –Hardisty is a fine writer and Straker is a great lead character’ Lee Child ‘A trenchant and engaging thriller that unravels this mysterious land in cool, precise sentences’Stav Sherez,Catholic Herald Just occasionally, a book comes along to restore your faith in a genre –and Paul Hardisty’s The Abrupt Physics of Dyingdoes this in spades’ Sharon Wheeler, Crime Review This is a remarkably well-written, sophisticated novel in which the people and places, as well as frequent scenes of violent action, all come alive on the page...’ Literary Review
Author Biography
Canadian Paul Hardisty has spent 25 years working all over the world as an engineer, hydrologist and environmental scientist. He has roughnecked on oil rigs in Texas, explored for gold in the Arctic, mapped geology in Eastern Turkey(where he was befriended by PKK rebels), and rehabilitated water wells in the wilds of Africa. He was in Ethiopia in 1991 as the Mengistu regime fell, and was bumped from one of the last flights out of Addis Ababa by bureaucrats and their families fleeingthe rebels. In 1993 he survived a bomb blast in a café in Sana’a, and was one of the last Westerners out of Yemen before the outbreak of the 1994 civil war. Paul is a university professor and Director of Australia’s national land, water, ecosystems and climate adaptation research programmes. He is a sailor, a private pilot, keen outdoorsman, conservation volunteer, and lives in Western Austra
Orenda Books
Orenda is an UK based independant publisher, producing beautiful, unforgettable literary fiction, with an emphasis on crime and thrillers, half in translation.
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- Publisher Orenda Books
- Publication Date May 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781910633687
- FormatPaperback
- Pages450
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- SeriesClaymore Straker
- Series Part2
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