by Lorraine Adams - £7.99 Granta Books (Portobello Books Ltd) (2011)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781846272387 | ISBN 10: 1846272386
A jet aircraft falls straight out of the sky into an island park in the heart of Washington, DC. But no-one seems to have noticed. Well, almost no-one...
At the capital's paper, the staff are in a frenzy, and the news, and ambition, can blind. In Washington's other power centre, Will queasily watches videos of a beheading from Falluja while lamenting the loss of his best double-agent, eliminated by the Iranian authorities whose nuclear intentions he was reporting. But that agent, Hoseyn, might yet provide the missing pieces that will permit the jigsaw to be completed from beyond his own death...
(Price & availability last checked: March 2019)
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