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Jack Wilson has just been released from Allenwood, a maximum-security prison, in White Deer, Pennsylvania. Now that he's a free man, he is hell-bent on a 'return to Paradise'. By which he means the destruction of Western civilization...Native American by birth, Wilson is a brilliant mathematician obsessed with the secret notebooks of Nikola Tesla - and the 'Ghost Dance' of his historical namesake, the Paiute Indian Jack Wilson. Tesla, a turn-of-the-century genius, claimed (and the KGB believed) that he had discovered a weapon of unparalleled destructiveness, a weapon Wilson seeks to use. It is Wilson's belief that Western civilization is a fragile enterprise, so technically interdependent upon its various components that a carefully targeted attack upon its infrastructure might well bring down the whole thing. And that was also the idea of the first Jack Wilson, whose vision of the Ghost Dance imagined a kind of Indian Rapture brought about by a great shaking of the earth - after which the civilization of the white man would disappear. In our time, in a plot reminiscent of "The Straw Men", Jack Wilson sets this diabolical scheme in motion...
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John Case [has] a sure hand and deep understanding of the visceral terrors of the situation - Grips the heart and gut with equal force" (The Guardian)
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A sizzling thriller... well-written and extremely gripping" (Daily Mail)
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John Case [has] a sure hand and deep understanding of the visceral terrors of the situation - Grips the heart and gut with equal force" (The Guardian)
"The Genesis Code
A sizzling thriller... well-written and extremely gripping" (Daily Mail)
"The First Horseman
Expertly researched and chillingly related... terrifying... the sort of thriller which defies you to look away" (Sunday Express)
"Trance State
A glass-shattering, diesel-fueled, hard-charging thrill ride of a read... [John Case] is a confident master writing at peak performance" (Lorenzo Carcaterra)
From the masterful creator of The Genesis Code and The Murder Artist ('deep in Harlan Coben territory' Independent on Sunday): John Case's latest chilling novel of terror and suspense.
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0434012017
- ISBN 13 9780434012015
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
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