Cry Darkness
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- €10.99
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- €10.99
Publisher Description
A mind-blowing discovery. A deadly conspiracy.
Caught off-guard when she receives an unexpected phone call from an old friend she hasn’t seen in 20 years, Dr Sandy Jones gives Connie Pike a polite brush-off. A few days later, she learns that Connie has been killed in an explosion at her Princeton laboratory.
Consumed by guilt, Jones heads to New Jersey, determined to find out the truth behind Connie’s death – and exactly what Connie had been trying to tell her in that last anxious phone call. Having previously participated in Connie’s and her lab partner, Paul Ruder’s, life’s work, the study of the human mind, Jones becomes convinced the pair had made a momentous scientific discovery shortly before the explosion, a discovery that could change the world as we know it.
But who are the shadowy figures who are never far behind Jones as she continues her quest for the truth? As she gradually uncovers evidence of a terrifying global conspiracy, Sandy begins to fear for her life – and the lives of those around her.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Astrophysicist and BBC science celebrity Sandy Jones, the protagonist of this predictable thriller from Bonner (the David Vogel mysteries), is about to assume the chancellorship of Oxford University when she receives a phone call from a former close friend, Connie Pike, "psychologist, philosopher, and innovator," who has dedicated her life to the work of RECAP (Research into Consciousness at Princeton). Connie is vague about the reason for her call, and Jones shortens their conversation with a promise to get back to her. But before she can do so, she hears a news report that Connie and a colleague have been killed in an explosion. In despair, and feeling guilty, Jones heads to the States, where she's caught up in a by-the-numbers plot involving shadowy government figures, violence, and secrets. Underdeveloped characters hinder any emotional engagement. Bonner has done much better than this clichéd effort.
