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Ascension de Oliver Harris

Ascension: William Morrow & Company

Autor Oliver Harris
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 apr 2024

Cât de adânc poți îngropa un adevăr pe o stâncă izolată în mijlocul oceanului? Aceasta este dilema care îl readuce pe Elliot Kane în prima linie. Obligat să renunțe la viața liniștită de profesor de literatură, Kane acceptă o misiune pe Insula Ascension. Un tehnician MI6 s-a sinucis. Sau cel puțin așa susține raportul oficial. Remarcăm imediat decorul claustrofob: un rest vulcanic între Brazilia și Angola, unde bazele militare britanice și americane dictează legea. Tensiunea crește exponențial. Kane descoperă că o adolescentă a dispărut în aceeași noapte. Coincidență? În lumea spionajului, nu există așa ceva. Reținem o structură narativă densă, unde misterul local se întrepătrunde cu secrete de stat care duc până la Londra. Putem afirma că Ascension rafinează temele explorate de Oliver Harris în A Shadow Intelligence. Dacă acolo Kane era un „spirit liber” în Kazahstan, aici este un prizonier al geografiei și al datoriei. Stilul are ceva din proza lui Clare Carson în The Dark Isle, fără să fie o imitație — Harris păstrează realismul brutal al procedurilor de informații, dar adaugă o atmosferă de izolare totală care amintește de romanele polițiste clasice de tip „cameră închisă”, adaptate la scara unei întregi insule. Totul este urgent. Timpul se scurge. Kane trebuie să rezolve dublul mister înainte ca propria acoperire să fie compromisă pe un petec de pământ unde toată lumea supraveghează pe toată lumea.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780358697442
ISBN-10: 0358697441
Pagini: 274
Dimensiuni: 133 x 202 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Colecția William Morrow & Company
Seria William Morrow & Company

Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii pasionați de romane polițiste care caută mai mult decât o intrigă simplă. Veți câștiga o incursiune fascinantă în psihologia unui spion forțat să aleagă între loialitatea față de prieteni și rigoarea agenției. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii lui Mick Herron care apreciază realismul tehnic și decorurile exotice, dar dezolante, unde mizele geopolitice devin personale.

Despre autor

Oliver Harris este un autor britanic de elită, deținător al unui doctorat și profesor de scriere creativă la Manchester Metropolitan University. S-a impus în literatura de gen prin seria Nick Belsey, debutând cu romanul „The Hollow Man”. Cu un parcurs academic solid în studii shakespeariene și literatură engleză la University of East Anglia, Harris aduce o profunzime rară thrillerului contemporan. Experiența sa de critic pentru Times Literary Supplement se reflectă în precizia stilistică și în complexitatea personajelor sale, transformându-l pe Elliot Kane într-unul dintre cei mai nuanțați protagoniști din literatura de spionaj actuală.

Descriere scurtă

British spy Elliot Kane is forced out of semi-retirement to investigate a colleague’s suspicious death on Ascension Island, a remote and rocky outpost of the British military in the middle of the Atlantic.
Despite foiling a plot to incite a new world war, Elliot Kane has been on probation with MI6 since his rogue misadventures in Kazakhstan. Granted a job teaching literature to college students, he surprisingly enjoys a conventional life away from the intelligence services. Then a former colleague reaches out with a request: one of her tech specialists on a long-term, covert mission has killed himself, and the agency needs to find out why before proceeding with the vital operation. The carrot in this offer is helping his old friend; the stick is more disciplinary action if he doesn’t comply. So Kane takes on deep cover again and heads to one of the most remote places on the planet, Ascension Island.
A curious legacy of England’s imperial past, Ascension is a desolate rock made of dead volcanic cones located in the Atlantic Ocean halfway between Brazil and Angola. Only employees and their families are allowed to reside there, and the island contains both British and American military bases. After learning that a teenage girl disappeared on the same night as the technician’s suicide, Kane finds himself with two mysteries to solve. With local tensions running high, he needs to move quickly before suspicion falls on him. Kane soon realizes the island has more secrets than even the government knows, some leading straight to the highest offices in London. 

Recenzii

PRAISE FOR A SHADOW INTELLIGENCE  AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020   “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's Ascension is a stunner. What a pleasure it is to read a book with a powerful story, an unusual and fully realised setting, a convincing hero, all written in a style of luminous clarity' Philip Pullman

Ascension: the most remote island in the world . . .

Elliot Kane, former spy, trying to leave the world of espionage behind.
Kathryn Taylor: a stalled career in MI6, running the South Atlantic desk.
Rory Bannatyne: covert technical specialist. Dead, apparently of suicide.

Three friends from a mission many years ago reconnect when one of them dies on Ascension Island. Rory Bannatyne had been tasked with tapping a new transatlantic data cable, but a day before he was due to return home he is found hanged. When Kathryn Taylor begs Kane to go over and investigate, he can't say no, but it's an uneasy reintroduction to the intelligence game.

Ascension is a curious legacy of England's imperial past. Only employees and their families are allowed to live there. It's home to several highly-classified government projects, a British and American military base, and forty dead volcanic cones. Entirely isolated from the world, the disappearance of a young girl at the same time as Rory's death means local tensions are high. Elliot needs to discover what happened to her as well as to Rory. But the island contains more secrets than even the government knows, and it's not going to give them up without a fight.