THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Wonderful: boldly imagined and beautifully written--the
best future-shock thriller for years."--****LEE CHILD
A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly
plausible dystopian near-future--with clear parallels to today's
headlines--in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one
woman, a scientist who has stumbled upon a secret that the government
will go to any lengths to keep hidden.
A world half in darkness. A secret she must bring to light.
It is 2059 and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a solar
catastrophe began to slow the planet's rotation to a stop. Now one half
of the globe is permanently sunlit, the other half trapped in an endless
night. The United States has colonized the southern half of Great
Britain--lucky enough to find itself in the narrow habitable region left
between frozen darkness and scorching sunlight--where both nations have
managed to survive the ensuing chaos by isolating themselves from the
rest of the world.
Ellen Hopper is a scientist living on a frostbitten rig in the cold
Atlantic. She wants nothing more to do with her country after its slide
into casual violence and brutal authoritarianism. Yet when two
government officials arrive, demanding she return to London to see her
dying college mentor, she accepts--and begins to unravel a secret that
threatens not only the nation's fragile balance, but the future of the
whole human race.
****"A tantalizing, suspenseful odyssey of frustration, deceit,
treachery, torture, hope, despair, and ingenious sleuthing . . . Murray
has so thoroughly thought through the ramifications of his conceit and
conjured up such a dramatic plot and stellar cast of characters that he
might have set a new standard for such tales."--The Washington
Post
