Dream of Darkness: A Novel of Suspense - Hardcover

Ruell, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881501786 ISBN 13: 9780881501780

Publisher: Foul Play Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Haunted by her mother's death thirteen years ago in Africa, where her father served as a British diplomat, Sairey Ellis, now eighteen, learns the truth about her father and the circumstances of her mother's death

About this title

Review:

‘Celebrated for putting a spin on the classic murder mystery’
Indpendent

‘Read him’
London Review of Books

‘So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder’
Sunday Telegraph

From the Back Cover:

Sairey Ellis's father is writing his memoirs. His career in the security service has provided him with the ammunition for some explosive revelations about Britain's secret links with the brutal regime of Idi Amin, and unofficial British connivance in Rhodesian sanctions busting. But there are those who will stop at nothing to prevent him from publishing...

This complex thriller from the acclaimed Reginald Hill takes a cool look at the role of a pitiless security service that punishes the guilty and innocent alike. Gripping, assured and perceptive, here is a chillingly convincing portrait of the nightmarish repercussions of a life spent in espionage.

“Hill is an absorbing, provoctaive novelist with great style and humour”
FRANCES FYFIELD, 'Observer'

“Hill, a true master, never fails to shock and surprise”
IAN RANKIN, ' Scotland on Sunday'

FIRST PUBLISHED AS A PATRICK RUELL NOVEL

About this edition

• Publisher: Foul Play Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0881501786
• ISBN 13: 9780881501780
• Binding: Hardcover