“Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to
Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent
militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying
terrorist atrocity – hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle
of west London was instantly annihilated. The authorities think the terrorist
attack and the death of Tarent's wife are somehow connected.
A century earlier, a stage magician is sent to the Western
Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible
to the enemy. On his journey to the trenches he meets the visionary who
believes that this will be the war to end all wars.
In 1943, a woman pilot from Poland tells a young RAF
technician of her escape from the Nazis, and her desperate need to return home.
In the present day, a theoretical physicist stands in his
English garden and creates the first adjacency.”
All this can be found in the new novel from Christopher
Priest. The Adjacent is out later this month from Gollancz (and £12.99 for
400-page hardback can’t be bad).
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