Frame 37
-
- Vooruitbestelling
-
- Verwacht op 14 mei 2026
-
- € 14,99
Beschrijving uitgever
Ex-journalist John Dyer must take on a dangerous political conspiracy to bring a killer to justice in this gripping thriller by an award-winning writer.
IN A WORLD OF LIES, PROOF IS POWER.
John Dyer is living a quiet life when he receives a call that changes everything: an old university friend, Lia, has been killed. Decades have passed since his last heartbreaking conversation with her, but Dyer finds himself driven to investigate.
What Dyer uncovers puts him in the path of a political conspiracy with one man at its heart. A man who forty years ago committed a crime witnessed by just four people. When another of the witnesses dies in suspicious circumstances, Dyer finds himself in danger of his life. To combat the forces arrayed against him, he needs incontrovertible proof – but will he find it in time?
As Dyer chases his leads from Tasmania to Argentina and finally to Michigan, where it all began, he unwittingly pits himself against an adversary more powerful than he could have imagined, in a race as heartstopping as tomorrow’s headlines.
PRAISE FOR NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE:
'An absorbing thriller with shades of John le Carré' Evening Standard
'A remarkable contemporary thriller... A triumph' William Boyd
'One of our best and truest novelists' The Times
'Exciting... A page-turner' Daily Telegraph
‘Wonderfully well written... with an insidious escalation of menace, and paranoia that fairly shimmers off the pages’ Guardian
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Shakespeare's shrewd fourth thriller featuring former British journalist John Dyer (after The Sandpit), the death of Dyer's old friend has international implications. At the outset, Dyer is in Tasmania hoping to finish a manuscript. His dreams of tranquility are dashed when photographer Miguel Girondo de Belew, a friend from grad school, approaches him with bad news: their mutual acquaintance, Lia Bignardi, has been killed in a hit-and-run that her sister, Nova, thinks was intentional. Though Dyer hasn't been in touch with Lia for decades ("He felt only a collection of overlapping memories, he could not assemble her face"), he's moved to look into Nova's suspicions. What he finds makes him suspect that Lia's death is connected to a crime he witnessed decades earlier, committed by a man who has since gained powerful political allies across the world. By investigating, Dyer knows he is putting a target on his own back. Shakespeare doles out backstory gradually, but the slow burn pays off in the end, and vibrant prose ("The wind gnawing the clouds, the pulse beating in his head, the shivery coincidence") is a plus. This is a winner.
