Paul E. Hardisty

Broschiertes Buch

The Descent

The Shocking, Visionary Climate-Emergency Thriller - Prequel to the Critically Acclaimed the Forcing

Beschreibung

A young man and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that set the world on its course to disaster â The prescient, deeply shocking prequel to the bestselling, critically acclaimed Climate Emergency thriller, The Forcing.

Autor

Canadian Paul E Hardisty has spent 25 years working all over the world as an engineer, hydrologist and environmental scientist. He has roughnecked on oil rigs in Texas, explored for gold in the Arctic, mapped geology in Eastern Turkey (where he was befriended by PKK rebels), and rehabilitated water wells in the wilds of Africa. He was in Ethiopia in 1991 as the Mengistu regime fell, and was bumped from one of the last flights out of Addis Ababa by bureaucrats and their families fleeing the rebels. In 1993 he survived a bomb blast in a café in Sana’a. Paul is a university professor and CEO of the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). The first four novels in his Claymore Straker series, The Abrupt Physics of Dying,The Evolution of Fear, Reconciliation for the Dead and Absolution all received great critical acclaim and The Abrupt Physics of Dying was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and Telegraph Thriller of the Year. Paul is a sailor, a private pilot, keen outdoorsman, conservation volunteer, and lives in Western Australia.

Produktdetails

• The Forcing Trilogy
• Verlag: Orenda Books
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9781916788039
• ISBN-10: 1916788033
• Artikelnr.: 69186705