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The Rhythm Section (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R360
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The Rhythm Section (Paperback, New Ed): Mark Burnell

The Rhythm Section (Paperback, New Ed)

Mark Burnell

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Loot Price R360 Discovery Miles 3 600

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Above-average thriller about a young woman whose family is killed in a terrorist attack on a commercial airliner. Consumed by guilt and loneliness, she abandons a promising future for a drug-fuelled decline into prostitution. When she encounters an investigative journalist on the trail of the Arab bombers who scuppered her family's plane she becomes entangled in a murderous web of espionage and international terrorism. There is a psychological novel at the centre of this complex tale which tackles issues like the nature of revenge and the redeeming power of love. An absorbing novel and not one to be read on a plane. (Kirkus UK)
The debut of an extraordinary new author -- a novel of how a woman, pushed over the edge by the violent deaths of her family, survives only by taking other identities. Stephanie Patrick's world was destroyed by the Atlantic aircrash. Falling into a downward spiral of prostitution, drugs and drink, she is picked up by a journalist who has discovered that it was a bomb that caused the crash. And it is his murder that pulls her out of herself. The Rhythm Section is not a thriller about the hunt for a terrorist, although that is the path Stephanie takes, and it's not a story about revenge, although justice for her family is her initial motivation. Rather, The Rhythm Section is the story of Stephanie's attempt to reclaim herself. She has to rediscover who she is through a series of roles that she is forced to play; she is never herself. As a prostitute, she is Lisa, the chemical blonde. Later, she is Petra Reuter, German anarchist turned mercenary terrorist. Sometimes, she is Marina Gaudenzi, a Swiss businesswoman, or she's Susan Branch, an American student, or Elizabeth Shepherd, an English management consultant. But whoever she is, she's never herself because her life depends on her b

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Imprint: HarperCollinsPublishers
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2000
Authors: Mark Burnell
Dimensions: 178 x 111 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Mass Market
Pages: 448
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-651337-7
Categories: Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > General
Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN: 0-00-651337-9
Barcode: 9780006513377

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