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A Shadow Intelligence de Oliver Harris

A Shadow Intelligence: An Elliot Kane Thriller

Autor Oliver Harris
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 apr 2021

Thrillerul de spionaj primește o actualizare brutală și digitală în paginile acestui roman. Notăm cu interes cum A Shadow Intelligence respectă fundamentele genului stabilite de maeștri precum John le Carré, dar subversează așteptările prin introducerea elementelor de război hibrid și supraveghere tehnologică avansată. Nu mai suntem în Berlinul Războiului Rece, ci în peisajul înghețat al Kazahstanului, un punct critic între marile puteri mondiale. Elliot Kane nu este un spion clasic; este o „fantomă” care își schimbă identitățile ca pe niște haine de împrumut. Totul se schimbă când Joanna Lake, femeia iubită, dispare fără urmă. Tensiunea este palpabilă. Ritmul, sufocant. Putem afirma că Oliver Harris reușește să construiască o atmosferă de paranoia totală, unde agențiile private de informații sunt la fel de periculoase ca serviciile de stat. Imaginați-vă tensiunea tactică din Shadow War de Sean McFate, mutată într-un decor de coșmar tehnologic unde fiecare telefon devine un instrument de trădare. Merită menționat că această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție clară față de seria anterioară a autorului, Nick Belsey, păstrând realismul dur din Deep Shelter, dar ridicând miza la nivel global. Este o incursiune în lumea agenților „deniabili” care operează în umbra știrilor oficiale, forțați să navigheze printr-un labirint de decepții unde nimeni nu este cine pretinde a fi.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780358561941
ISBN-10: 0358561949
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper Paperbacks
Seria An Elliot Kane Thriller

Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un thriller de spionaj adaptat secolului XXI. Veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă și terifiantă asupra modului în care datele digitale și agențiile private remodelează geopolitica actuală. Este lectura ideală pentru fanii lui Mick Herron care își doresc o intrigă mai tehnică, plasată într-un decor exotic și periculos precum Kazahstanul.

Despre autor

Oliver Harris, născut la Londra în 1978, este un autor cu un parcurs academic impresionant, deținând un doctorat în psihanaliză și un master în studii Shakespeare. Această profunzime intelectuală se reflectă în complexitatea psihologică a personajelor sale. Cunoscut inițial pentru seria de romane polițiste Nick Belsey, Harris a făcut tranziția către thrillerul de spionaj cu un succes critic remarcabil. Experiența sa în scrierea creativă și recenziile pentru Times Literary Supplement contribuie la stilul său narativ precis și documentat.

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AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020

“An absorbing, superbly written novel likely to stand as one of the best spy novels of the year.”
—Kirkus, starred review

Elliot Kane reflects the dark side of MI6. He is the instrument of an agency that puts two years and more than £100K into training recruits to steal cars, hack bank accounts, strip weapons, and employ everything from blackmail to improvised explosives in service of Crown and Country. After fifteen years overseas embroiled in events that never make the news, Kane is a ghost in his own life, assuming and shedding personalities with each new cover story.

When the woman he loves, another operative named Joanna Lake, vanishes in Kazakhstan, she leaves behind an astonishing video of Kane in a room he’s never entered—sending Kane off the rails to find her. While he’s well versed in modern psychological warfare, snowbound, landlocked Kazakhstan presents unique challenges. In a country poised between China, Russia, and the West, between dictatorship and democracy, between state intelligence and increasingly powerful private corporations, it’s impossible to work out who is manipulating whom. Drawn ever deeper into a realm of deception and conflicting agendas, Kane moves from merely spying to steering the action. But Kane’s not the only one trying to figure out where Joanna Lake has gone, or what she learned before disappearing.

“Sharp writing and provocative content.” —Wall Street Journal
“Elegant and compulsive.” —Ian Rankin
 

Recenzii

“Thought-provoking...there’s certainly more than enough sharp writing and provocative content in this initial adventure to justify a sequel.” —Wall Street Journal   “This may be the deepest a contemporary spy novel has penetrated the cold new world of dark web intelligence and cellphone surveillance…. An absorbing, superbly written novel likely to stand as one of the best spy novels of the year.” —Kirkus, starred review   “Oliver Harris is always pure quality and I’m loving the hell out of his foray into the contemporary spy novel. Elegant and compulsive.” —Ian Rankin   “Elliot Kane needs his wits about him to keep track of his own identities and those of fellow MI6 agent Joanna, who he's looking for in Kazakhstan. The binary simplicity of the Cold War has been replaced by a geopolitical Rubik's cube of corruption, nationalism, oil money and internet deceit. Tremendous evocation of modern Kazakhstan and the contemporary intelligence landscape. Scary if true, or even half true.” —Sunday Times Crime Club, star pick   “Elliott Kane is an unusually thoughtful spy . . . As much a thinker as a doer, Kane has much in common with le Carré's Jerry Westerby or Lionel Davidson's Johnny Porter, a plausibly multi-faceted old school operator with the skills—physical, psychological, intellectual—to negotiate the geopolitical fault lines of central Asia as Russia and China square up over Kazahstan's untapped oil reserves.” —Irish Times   “A Middle East specialist, flies to Astana in Kazakhstan to search for his former colleague and lover Joanna, and gets caught up in the jostling for power, deals and intelligence in a city portrayed as becoming a 21st-century mecca for spooks . . . Classier writing, fresher characters, original setting, a real sense of insider lore (on both spycraft and geopolitics).” —Sunday Times   “A splendid thriller with new perspectives on places and the distinctly unclean side of the great game of espionage.” —Crime Time (Blog)   “A gripping, fast-moving and intelligent novel from new spy fiction star Oliver Harris which will leave readers wanting a lot more Elliot Kane adventures.” —Irish Independent   “Elliot Kane is highly-trained MI6 spook. So highly-trained that he's pretty much forgotten who the hell he really is after years of false identities and subterfuge . . . In a deadly world of deception by just about every nasty state, and that includes his own, he's truly up against it in this complex thriller that keeps you on your toes throughout." —Sunday Sport, four stars   “An intelligent and thoroughly researched spy-procedural giving razor-sharp insight into the particular challenges of 21st-century espionage." —Big Issue   “A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London and a beguiling bastard of a hero.” —Val McDermid on The Hollow Man —

Notă biografică

OLIVER HARRIS was born in London in 1978. He has an MA in Shakespeare studies and a PhD in psychoanalysis. He writes occasionally for the Times Literary Supplement.

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'Oliver Harris is always pure quality and I'm loving the hell out of his foray into the contemporary spy novel' Ian Rankin

'Scary if true, or even half true' Sunday Times star pick

There is a dark side to MI6 that needs men like Elliot Kane - mercurial, inquisitive, free floating. He's spent fifteen years managing events overseas that never make the papers, deniable and deeply effective. Kane is a ghost in his own life, picking up and dropping personalities as each new cover story comes into play. But when a woman he loves, Joanna Lake, vanishes without a trace in Kazakhstan, he is forced centre stage.

Drawn ever deeper into a realm of deception, Kane moves from merely infiltrating events to steering them. He's used to a new mode of hybrid psychological warfare - but snowbound Kazakhstan presents unique challenges. Poised between China, Russia and the West, dictatorship and democracy, state intelligence and an increasingly powerful world of private agencies, it's impossible to work out who is manipulating who. And Kane's not the only one trying to figure out where Joanna Lake has gone or what she learned before disappearing.

Unable to trust anyone, hunted by his own colleagues, and with the life of someone he loves at stake, Kane needs to work out who is driving events, and why...

Readers say:

'Damn, Harris knows what he is talking about, and damn if he doesn't stream that knowledge hard and fast through a sniper's ricocheting trickshot of a plot' five star reader review

'I love the geopolitical skullduggery, the contemporary Great Game ... and it does feel contemporary. It puts espionage solidly in the digital world without losing the essence - people on the ground' five star reader review

'Up there with LeCarre in my view. I'll get everything he's written now' five star reader review