First trade paperback printing
Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.
Publishing Info: Gollancz, London, 2014
ISBN: 9780575105386
Past and present are intertwined and a terrifying weapon causes reverberations throughout time in best selling author of The Prestige Christopher Priest's new book.
In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed—annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth.
A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy.
Present day. A theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time.
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