K - Softcover

Easterman, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2266096397 ISBN 13: 9782266096393

Publisher: Pocket, 2000

Synopsis

500pages. poche. broché. 1940. La guerre mine l'Europe. Outre-Atlantique, un régime de terreur s'est mis en place. Le gouvernement américain collabore avec les allemands et mène une répression féroce contre les juifs et les noirs. Une chasse orchestrée par le Klan et l'Alliance Aryenne, l'organisation qui a porté Lindbergh au pouvoir. John Ridgeforth, un agent britannique, arrive à Washington où la résistance l'attend. Sa mission consiste à tuer Lindbergh pour renverser le gouvernement et empêcher les américains d'entrer en guerre aux côtés de l'Allemagne. Grâce à Laura, la femme du vice-président Stephenson, John s'introduit à la Maison Blanche. Mais ses plans sont bouleversés par l'assassinat imprévu de Lindbergh, un coup monté de toutes pièces par Stephenson qui prend la tête du pays. Extrémiste fascisant, il souhaite s'allier plus étroitement à l'Allemagne. John et Laura, qui sont tombés amoureux, cherchent les failles dans cette mascarade. Mais Stephenson, avec l'aide des services secrets Allemands, apprend que sa femme le trompe et que John est un espion. Ils les arrêtent et tentent de les tuer. Le couple s'en sort et met au point un plan pour l'éliminer. Quelques temps plus tard, Laura et John quittent les Etats-Unis pour l'Angleterre. En route, une information les remplit de joie. Joe Kennedy, le nouveau président, rompt toute relation diplomatique avec l'Allemagne.

About this title

Review:

‘He can weave a web of suspense, laced with historical and mythological references that bait the imagination, satisfactorily embroidered with bullet holes and bloodshed.’
The Times

‘Has a handsome literate style.’
Independent

‘One of the most provocative thriller writers around.’
Kirkus Reviews

From the Back Cover:

The barbed wire stretched for miles and eternity. Everything it contained, everyone who lived behind it, was finite, trapped, condemned to die, even the guards with their deaths – heads uniforms and sub – machine guns, even the camp commandant with his expensive tastes and sophisticated vices, even the dogs with their sharp teeth and vigilant eyes.

It is wartime and John Ridgeforth has been smuggled, his mission deadly secret, into a country which he thought he knew, thought he loved. It is a country where public lynchings are condoned: where concentration camps are rife; where neighbour spies on neighbour, and lovers are dangerous enemies; where Jews, Blacks, Communists are branded with the letter K. A country where K stands for kike; and, too, for the Ku Klux Klan.

Easterman's powerful flight of imagination carries us into a nightmare world which is also uncannily close to truth and our worst fears, most haunting dreads. We have seen fanaticism; now we see what could so easily have been all our yesterdays ... This terrifying what – if novel comes from an author at the height of his powers.

Daniel Easterman was born in Ireland in 1949, was a lecturer at Newcastle University for several years, and is fluent in several languages. Dubbed by 'The Purloined Letter' as "easily the best thriller writer working today", he is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels including 'The Judas Testament, Day of Wrath' and 'The Final Judgement'. He also writes full length ghost stories under the name of Jonathan Aycliffe. He lives in the North of England with his wife, Beth, a writer of popular books on alternative medicine.

ACCLAIM FOR DANIEL EASTERMAN'S PREVIOUS NOVELS

'The Judas Testament'

"This is the sort of book that mega seller Jack Higgins might hope to write when he grows up. Its scale is both human and fantastic, its duplicities tortuous yet veering on the credible, its protagonists cut out of more than just cardboard."
THE TIMES

'Day of Wrath'

"A blood soaked saga of human frailty, duplicity and insanity. Guaranteed to keep you awake at night, even after you have finished it."
THE TIMES

'The Final Judgement'

"Blends tomorrow the world villains with heroic protagonist. Notable for above average complexities, exotic locales, and a wealth of slam bang action."
KIRKUS REVIEWS

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 2266096397
• ISBN 13: 9782266096393
• Binding: Paperback