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Evocations of England's coastland and complex, fully realized characterizations are interpolated into this tautly paced novel by the author of Dead Reckoning. A fugitive encountered on the moors intrudes into the lives of illustrator Laura Sondergard and naturalist Martin Ritchie, two former lovers happily reunited after 15 years and broken marriages. The fugitive's unlikely story of nuclear terrorism and secret, high-level plans to smooth the way for a police state fails to convince Martin. Laura, however, believes the fugitive and refuses to allow Martin to contact the authorities. The rift between them deepens when events at a local nuclear reactor bear out the hunted man's allegations, and the redoubled search for him involves the lovers. As hysterical refugees flee a phony nuclear disaster, Laura and Martin make decisions that will irrevocably alter the way they see each other. The narrative moves quickly, carrying the reader past the defects of its ambitious, but occasionally improbable, plot.
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This suspenseful thriller, set in the English moor country, revolves around the arrival of a fugitive who warns of a threat of nuclear terrorism and a possible plot to establish a police state--a tale that seems incredible until events at the local nuclear reactor plant seem to bear him out. Added to all this is a triangular romance between the hunted man and a local naturalist and his girlfriend, as well as loving and beautiful descriptions of the moor and its birds and plants. This otherwise exciting novel is burdened with some gratuitous and graphic sex scenes that add nothing to the story.
- Sister Avila, Acad. of the Holy Angels, Minneapolis
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- PublisherWilliam Heinman
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0434655511
- ISBN 13 9780434655519
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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