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From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about an Antarctic colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilization under the most extreme conditions imaginable.
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist… Antarctica.
Cold People follows the perilous journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity’s future? Can they build a new society in the sub-zero cold?
Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic.
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Cold People
Tom Rob Smith
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* "A zany, wildly gripping, dark futuristic fantasy." --Vogue, Most
Anticipated Books of the Year * "Fascinating...a propulsive
ride...through a well-built world." --The Christian Science Monitor
* From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 and creator of
the FX series Class of '09 comes a "cinematic" (The Washington
Post), "captivating...[and] "brilliantly conceived postapocalyptic
story" (Booklist, starred review) about an Antarctic colony of
global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilization under
the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen.
Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the
planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no
reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message:
humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they
will be allowed to exist...Antarctica. Cold People follows the
perilous journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic
exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their
goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to
life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must
also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve
rapidly enough to ensure humanity's future? Can they build a new
society in the sub-zero cold? Original and imaginative, as
profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a
"spellbinding...speculative masterpiece" (Library Journal, starred
review) that's "chilling in so many ways" (Los Angeles Times).
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Cold People (Hardcover)
Tom Rob Smith
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'Stunning' Publishers Weekly 'Absolutely captivating' Booklist What
if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the
brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and
fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors
seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions
imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and
omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no
negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All
they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one
place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist... Antarctica.
Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure
the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet.
But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as
they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept
away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change
and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity's future? Can they
build a new society in the sub-zero cold? Original and imaginative,
as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a
masterful and unforgettable epic. Praise for Tom Rob Smith 'A
remarkable achievement' Jeffrey Deaver 'Amazing' Lee Child
'Chilling, hypnotic and thoroughly compelling' Mark Billingham
'Truly original and chilling' Jojo Moyes 'Tom Rob Smith's mastery
of suspense will make any reader's heart pound' Financial Times 'A
thrilling, intense piece of fiction' Observer 'Ingeniously
plotted... a high voltage story' New York Times 'Perfectly plotted,
utterly terrifying' Daily Mail 'A mind-blowing, addictive plot that
will have you on the edge of your seat' Stylist 'A powerful
page-turner' GQ 'Taut and atmospheric' Irish Independent
'Masterly... read this and shiver' Telegraph
Former Soviet Secret Service agent Leo Demidov has built himself a
new life as a civilian with his wife Raisa, and their two teenage
daughters, Elena and Zoya. The Soviet Union is a country trying to
reassert itself after the murderous excesses of Stalin and the
chaos of the following years, and as the Cold War continues powers
inside Russia seek to topple their great enemy, the United States
of America. Communist allies within the United States will prove
vital players in this game of intrigue and revolution. Raisa and
their two daughters travel to the United States on a diplomatic
mission, but a horrifying tragedy destroys everything Leo and Raisa
have built. Leo must get to the States somehow and find out what
happened. Exiled from the Soviet Union and separated from his
family, Leo's quest takes him through the stark wilderness of
Afghanistan, reawakening all his old instincts and forcing him to
confront his demons. But whatever it costs, wherever he must go, he
will find Agent 6.
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. INCLUDING A FOREWORD FROM JOSEPH
KANON. OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD MOSCOW, 1953. Under Stalin's
terrifying regime, families live in fear. When the all-powerful
State claims there is no such thing as crime, who dares disagree?
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER IN OVER 30 LANGUAGES An ambitious
secret police officer, Leo Demidov believes he's helping to build
the perfect society. But when he uncovers evidence of a killer at
large - a threat the state won't admit exists - Demidov must risk
everything, including the lives of those he loves, in order to
expose the truth. A THRILLER UNLIKE ANY YOU HAVE EVER READ But what
if the danger isn't from the killer he is trying to catch, but from
the country he is fighting to protect? Nominated for seventeen
international awards and inspired by a real-life investigation,
CHILD 44 is a relentless story of love, hope and bravery in a
totalitarian world. From the screenwriter of the acclaimed
television series, THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN
CRIME STORY.
Former Soviet Secret Service agent Leo Demidov has built himself a
new life as a civilian with his wife Raisa, and their two teenage
daughters, Elena and Zoya. The Soviet Union is a country trying to
reassert itself after the murderous excesses of Stalin and the
chaos of the following years, and as the Cold War continues powers
inside Russia seek to topple their great enemy, the United States
of America. Communist allies within the United States will prove
vital players in this game of intrigue and revolution. Raisa and
their two daughters travel to the United States on a diplomatic
mission, but a horrifying tragedy destroys everything Leo and Raisa
have built. Leo must get to the States somehow and find out what
happened. Exiled from the Soviet Union and separated from his
family, Leo's quest takes him through the stark wilderness of
Afghanistan, reawakening all his old instincts and forcing him to
confront his demons. But whatever it costs, wherever he must go, he
will find Agent 6.
OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD MOSCOW, 1953. Under Stalin's terrifying
regime, families live in fear. When the all-powerful State claims
there is no such thing as crime, who dares disagree? AN
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER IN OVER 30 LANGUAGES An ambitious secret
police officer, Leo Demidov believes he's helping to build the
perfect society. But when he uncovers evidence of a killer at large
- a threat the state won't admit exists - Demidov must risk
everything, including the lives of those he loves, in order to
expose the truth. A THRILLER UNLIKE ANY YOU HAVE EVER READ But what
if the danger isn't from the killer he is trying to catch, but from
the country he is fighting to protect? Nominated for seventeen
international awards and inspired by a real-life investigation,
CHILD 44 is a relentless story of love, hope and bravery in a
totalitarian world. From the screenwriter of the acclaimed
television series, THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN
CRIME STORY.
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Agent 6 (Paperback)
Tom Rob Smith
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Moscow, 1965. Former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov is forbidden
to travel with his wife and daughters to New York as part of a
'Peace Tour', meant to foster better relations between the two Cold
War enemies. Leo's natural paranoia reaches its peak: Why have his
family been selected? What is being planned? When Leo's worst fears
are realised and a tragic murder destroys everything he loves, he
demands only one thing: that he is allowed to investigate and find
the killer who has struck at the heart of his family. Crippled by
grief, his request denied, Leo sees no other option than to take
matters into his own hands, thousands of miles from the crime
scene. In a surprising, thrilling story that spans decades and
continents - from the backstreets of 1960s New York to the
mountains of Afghanistan in the 1980s - Leo will stop at nothing as
he hunts the one person who knows the truth: Agent 6.
If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my
son... Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful
retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's
birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your
mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been
imagining things - terrible, terrible things.In fact, she has been
committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to
Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a
lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow.
Daniel is immediately caught between his parents - whom to believe,
whom to trust? He becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury.
Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his
own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide for
himself: who is telling the truth? And he has secrets of his own
that for too long he has kept hidden...
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Child 44 (Paperback)
Tom Rob Smith
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"In a country ruled by fear, no
one is innocent."
Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live
free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state.
Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a
war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a
murderer starts to kill at will and Leo dares to investigate, the
State's obedient servant finds himself demoted and exiled. Now,
with only his wife at his side, Leo must fight to uncover shocking
truths about a killer-and a country where "crime" doesn't exist.
Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called
"brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and
"sensational" (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense,
suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten
to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable
obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a better
tomorrow is found in the most unlikely of circumstances . . .
THE SECRET SPEECH
Soviet Union, 1956. Stalin is dead, and a violent regime is
beginning to fracture-leaving behind a society where the police are
the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. A secret speech
composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the
entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant. Its promise: The
Soviet Union will change.
Facing his own personal turmoil, former state security officer Leo
Demidov is also struggling to change. The two young girls he and
his wife Raisa adopted have yet to forgive him for his part in the
death of their parents. They are not alone. Now that the truth is
out, Leo, Raisa, and their family are in grave danger from someone
consumed by the dark legacy of Leo's past career. Someone
transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of
vengeance.
From the streets of Moscow in the throes of political upheaval, to
the Siberian gulags, and to the center of the Hungarian uprising in
Budapest, THE SECRET SPEECH is a breathtaking, epic novel that
confirms Tom Rob Smith as one of the most exciting new authors
writing today.
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The Farm (Paperback)
Tom Rob Smith
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From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom
Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted
thriller in the vein of John Le Carre's APerfect Spy. Daniel
believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a
remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with
a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother... she's not
well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible,
terrible things.In fact, she has been committed to a mental
hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother
calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I
need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Presented with a horrific
crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must
examine the evidence and decide: who is telling the truth, his
mother or his father? And he has secrets of his own that for too
long he has kept hidden...
How far would you go to solve a crime against your family?
It is 1965. Leo Demidov, a former secret police agent, is forbidden
to travel with his wife and daughters from Moscow to New York. They
are part of a "Peace Tour," meant to foster closer relations
between the two Cold War enemies. On the tour, Leo's family is
caught up in a conspiracy and betrayal that ends in tragedy. In the
horrible aftermath, Leo demands one thing: that he be allowed to
investigate and find the attacker that struck at the heart of his
family on foreign soil. From the highest levels of the Soviet
government, he is told "No, that is impossible." Leo is haunted by
the question: what happened in New York? In a surprising, epic
story that spans decades and continents-from 1950s Moscow to 1960s
America to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s-Leo's long
pursuit of justice will force him to confront everything he ever
thought he knew about his country, his family, and himself.
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