'Written with tremendous pace and panache. It sweeps you along in
excitement. John Buchan, Ray Bradbury, science fiction or suspense
- it is all the same to Mr Priestley. He takes on a dozen writers
and shows himself a match for them all.' - "The Times"
' O]ne of the finest novels I have read for some time ... I found
Mr Priestley's book utterly convincing ... the settings are so well
observed whether they be in London, New York, South America, or
Australia. Mr Priestley, indeed, takes us on a Cook's tour of the
world and a very knowledgeable guide he turns out to be ... the
book is packed with vivid little portraits of people and places
that have all the note of the unexpected which makes them ring
authentically true.' - Burns Singer, "Listener"
'Vivid, fast-moving, crisp as an air ticket to a rare and unlikely
destination ... a novel that reads, as they say, like a bomb, and
sets the reader pondering once again over its author's exuberant
and richly grooved imagination.' - "Sunday Times"
'Mr Priestley's new novel is immensely entertaining and the fun
and excitement give point to the seriousness of the conclusion.
"Saturn Over the Water" has the pace of the best Buchan, together
with some of the SF qualities of Professors Hoyle and Lewis; and
above all the moral - or rather spiritual - values of the late
Charles Williams ... Mr Priestley has added a secret something of
his own and created a potent and exhilarating punch.' - John
Davenport, "Observer"
Tim Bedford, a young English painter, has made a promise to his
dying cousin to find her husband, a scientist who vanished while
working on a top-secret project in South America. The only clue is
a scrap of paper with a scribbled list of words and a curious
symbol resembling a figure 8 over a wavy line. As he follows the
trail from Cambridge to New York to the sultry streets of Lima, the
remote Peruvian desert, and the volcanic coast of southern Chile,
Bedford finds himself facing danger at every turn. The action and
suspense build towards a thrilling climax in the mountains of
Australia, where Bedford will uncover the truth behind a sinister
conspiracy that threatens the entire world ... but can it be
stopped, or is it already too late?
One of the most popular and critically successful of J.B.
Priestley's later novels, "Saturn Over the Water" (1961) is a
fast-paced and clever mix of adventure, mystery, and science
fiction that remains, as David Collard writes in the new
introduction to this edition, 'an entertaining and marvellously
eccentric "jeu d'esprit"'.
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