A Thousand Suns

✍ Scribed by Scarrow, Alex

• Book ID: 107597096
• Publisher: Orion
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 226 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781409105480

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Scarrow debuts with an intense what-if that ties a present-day freelance photographer to an ill-fated WWII German assault on Manhattan. Photojournalist Chris Roland heads to Rhode Island to investigate reports of an American B-17 bomber wrecked just off the coast. When he crawls into the submerged cockpit, he finds what appear to be the skeletal remains of a Luftwaffe pilot. His curiosity piqued, Roland investigates, but his interest and his photographs put him in the crosshairs of James Wallace, an aging spy charged by Truman to keep the B-17 and its mission top secret. The prose is unsteady in places, but Scarrow has a real talent for pacing, and he keeps the tension escalating as the action flips between Wallace's pursuit of Roland and the final days of WWII. (Apr.)
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Review

"An intense what-if that ties a present-day freelance photographer to an ill-fated WWII German assault on Manhattan . . . Scarrow has a real talent for pacing, and he keeps the tension escalating." — Publishers Weekly

"An exuberant and epic tale." —Good Book Guide

"An epic tale that moves between the present and the last days of the Third Reich." —Eastern Daily Press

"This is a fascinating timeslip mystery . . . Scarrow manages the division well, keeping up the suspense on both sides of the story." — Guardian

"Alex Scarrow's depiction of Britain as only a few hours away from disintegration is chillingly plausible. This is the perfect book to give to somebody who opposes your plans to build a wind farm." — Daily Telegraph