'Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained
surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut.
Her lips were pale, and nearly too full for her small mouth, like
something bled but bruised. He had never seen anyone or anything
quite so beautiful in his life.' Graham Park is in love. But
Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse
mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that
They are out to get him. They are. Quiss, insecure in his fabulous
if ramshackle castle, is forced to play interminable impossible
games. The solution to the oldest of all paradoxical riddles will
release him. But he must find an answer before he knows the
question. Park, Grout, Quiss - no trio could be further apart. But
their separate courses are set for collision.
Inexorably powerful ... sinister manipulations and magnetic ambiguities Observer The author's powerful imagination is displayed here every bit as vividly as in his debut FINANCIAL TIMES
Iain Banks, geboren 1954 in Dunfermline, Schottland, schrieb 1984 in London seinen ersten Roman, der in 20 Sprachen übersetzt wurde und ihn auf einen Schlag weltberühmt machte. Seither folgten mehr als ein Dutzend erfolgreicher Romane. Unter dem Namen Iain M. Banks schrieb er auch Science-Fiction-Romane. Er lebte bis zu seinem Tod, 2013, in der Nähe von Edinburgh.
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