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Harper
February 2010
On Sale: February 1, 2010
Featuring: Adam Kindred
416 pages
ISBN: 0061876747
EAN: 9780061876745
Hardcover
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One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young
climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good
about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little
Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary
diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With
horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of
malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything—home,
family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards,
cell phone—never to get them back. The police are searching for him. There is a reward for his
capture. A hired killer is stalking him. He is alone and
anonymous in a huge, pitiless modern city. Adam has nowhere
to go but down—underground. He decides to join that vast
army of the disappeared and the missing who throng London’s
lowest levels as he tries to figure out what to do with his
life and struggles to understand the forces that have made
it unravel so spectacularly. Adam's quest will take him all
along the river Thames, from affluent Chelsea to the gritty
East End, and on the way he will encounter all manner of
London's denizens—aristocrats, prostitutes, evangelists, and
policewomen—and version after new version of himself. Ordinary Thunderstorms, William Boyd's electric
follow-up to his award-winning Restless, is a
profound and gripping novel about the fragility of social
identity, the corruption at the heart of big business, and
the secrets that lie hidden in the filthy underbelly of
every city.
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