The Sleep Of The Dead
$34.28
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2002
Summary
The brutal murder of Sarah Ford and the disappearance of her six-year-old daughter, Alice, shattered the rural serenity of Julia Havilland’s childhood. But these are not the only scars that have resolutely refused to heal. Shortly afterwards, Colonel Mitchell Havilland sacrificed himself on a Falklands hillside in an act of characteristic - but baffling - heroism.
When Julia comes home from China fifteen years later, it is to a place of ghosts. Whilst she awaits the outcome of the enq…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552145879 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552145874 |
| Author: | Tom Bradby |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Corgi Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2002 |
| Weight: | 253g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 107mm x 178mm |
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Critics Review
“A race-against-the-clock thriller and a complex psychological drama.”- Irish Independent
‘Intriguing and emotive, this is a slow builder that proves to be well worth the wait’ * The Mirror *
‘Elegant, spooky and a compulsive page turner’ * Daily Mail *
‘A race-against-the-clock thriller and a complex psychological drama’ * Irish Independent *
‘Torn apart by loyalties and suspicion, the tension gradually mounts as the pieces of the jigsaw finally fit together into a gripping psychological drama’ * Choice *
‘Lives up to the promise of its remarkable predecessor, Shadow Dancer…confirms Bradby’s considerable promise as a a thriller writer’ * Daily Mail *
Tom Bradby
Tom Bradby is a novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He has written nine previous novels, including top-ten bestselling Secret Service, and its two sequels, Double Agent and Triple Cross. The Master of Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year, and both The White Russian and The God of Chaos for the CWA Historical Crime Novel of the Year. He adapted his first novel, Shadow Dancer, into a film, the script for which was nominated for Screenplay of the Year in the Evening Standard Film Awards.
As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of ITV’s News at Ten. In his first year in the job he was named Network Presenter of the Year by the Royal Television Society. He has been with ITN for thirty years and was successively Ireland Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Asia Correspondent (during which time he was shot and seriously injured whilst covering a riot in Jakarta), Royal Correspondent, UK Editor and Political Editor - a job he held for a decade - before being made the Anchor of News at Ten in 2015.
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