Alex Pearl

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The Chair Man (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Michael Hollinghurst is a successful corporate lawyer living a comfortable, suburban life in leafy North West London. But on 7 July 2005, his life is transformed when he steps on a London underground train targeted by Islamist suicide bombers. While most passengers in his carriage are killed, Michael survives the explosion but is confined to a wheelchair as a result. Coming to terms with his predicament and controlling his own feelings of guilt as a survivor conspire to push him in a direction that is out of character and a tad reckless. In a quest to seek retribution, he resorts to embracing the internet and posing as a radical Islamist in order to snare potential perpetrators. Much to his surprise, his shambolic scheme yields results and is brought to the attention of both GCHQ and a terrorist cell. But before long, dark forces begin to gather and close in on him. There is seemingly no way out for Michael Hollinghurst. He has become, quite literally, a sitting target. "'The Chair Man' would make an excellent book club choice, stimulating discussion and lively argument. It contains masses of detailed information, selection from which can justify a wide range of interpretations. Many readers will admire Hollinghurst. He is a good father, particularly to his daughter Natasha, who considers him "the best frigging dad in the world", and he possesses "in spades" the "primal need to feel and protect your own flesh and blood." His son Ben thinks he "could always see the good in others." But that is exactly how many terrorists are remembered by almost all who knew and loved them. "The nearest I ever got to a "terrorist incident" was in East London, when I heard the IRA bomb go off in Docklands in 1996. I cannot predict my reaction were I to be caught up personally in such events, but I hope I would not go the same way as Michael Hollinghurst, the central figure in this entertaining and elaborately-plotted novel. It is a gripping thriller that repays careful and close reading (and I will certainly read it again)." Graham Smith, 2020

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Autor

Alex Pearl is an extremely short-sighted and slightly shambolic author living in leafy North West London with a wife and overindulged cat. 'Sleeping with the Blackbirds', his first published work of fiction, was first published by Pen Press in 2011. It was longlisted for the Millennium Book Awards 2018 and selected by the Indie Author Project for distribution to public libraries across the US and Canada. In 2014, his short story 'Scared to Death' was published by Mardibooks in its anthology 'The Clock Struck War' to mark the centenary of the First World War. 'The Chair Man' published by Fizgig Press in 2019 is a thriller set in 2005 and is quite possibly the world's first thriller to feature a tetraplegic protagonist waging war on international terrorism. It was a Finalist in the 2021 Wishing Shelf Book Awards. During the Covid epidemic, Alex conducted a series of 100 author interviews, which he published in book form under the title '100 Ways to Write a Book.' All author proceeds are being donated to PEN International. 'A Brand to Die For' is his third work of fiction. His only other claim to fame is that he is almost certainly the only human being on this planet to have been inadvertently locked in a record shop on Christmas Eve.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alex Pearl
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463476369
• Artikelnr.: 74352751