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THE LATEST NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS

‘A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative in which the writer pulls us ever deeper in to the imaginative globe he has generated.’ SUNDAY Instances

‘Harris is rightly praised while the master from the intelligent thriller. Genuinely thrilling, wonderfully conceived and completely without preaching, it probes the type of history, of collective memory and forgetting, and exposes the fragility of contemporary civilisation.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

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1468. A priest, Christopher Fairfax, comes in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The property around is certainly strewn with historic artefacts – cash, fragments of cup, human bones – which the old parson used to collect. Do his obsession with days gone by result in his death?

Seeing that Fairfax is drawn deeper in to the isolated community, everything he believes – about himself, his beliefs and the annals of his world – is tested to devastation.

‘[Harris] will take us on an exciting ride while serving up serious meals for thought . I doubt there’s a living article writer who is better at simultaneously making readers’ adrenaline pump while their brains whirr.’ Weekend EXPRESS

‘A truly unexpected future-history thriller. Fabulous, really.’ EVENING Regular

‘The book’s genuine power lies in its between-the-lines warning our accept of the web represents some kind of sleepwalk into oblivion. It’s a provocative, tub-thumping sci-fi of which H. G. Wells might have been very pleased.’ DAILY MAIL

‘Harris’ latest function intelligently warps historical fiction and tackles problems of religion, research as well as the apocalypse in the process. As he flexes his imagination, you’ll be still left pondering normally when you are page-turning.’ HERALD

‘A brilliantly imaginative thriller’ READER’S DIGEST