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Remembrance Day by Henry PorterOrion Books 482 pages, 2000 ISBN 0752827715 Reviewed by our South African Editor Merilyn Tomkins adams.west@saol.com - Adams Bookshop, Durban, SA This is a remarkably powerful first thriller by Henry Porter. Con. Lindow is waiting for his brother when a bus turns into the street where he is standing near a tube station. The bus explodes. Con is arrested as the prime suspect because he is Irish and acquainted with a notorious top figure in the IRA. Con is pitched head first into a web of intrigue, mystery and danger. "Lying in the hospital, Lindow switched off the reading light and lay in the dark thinking. The next day he would go back to his new laboratory at Imperial College: life would begin afresh and he would resume his inquiries into the discree messages transmitted between bacteria. The bomb would become yesterday's disorder and soon it would be folded up in the past like the other explosion - the one that rumbled, long ago, through an Irish summer dawn, blowing a crater in a church graveyard. He'd left that behind and he would do the same this time. His last thought before slipping into a fitful sleep was to wonder where Eamonn was. Odd that he wasn't home by now, odd that he hadn't tried to contact the hospital." Lindow's life is threatened and he must find the real bomber, not only to prove his own innocence but to save the lives of many innocent people. Con. Lindow finds himself involved in a race against time, co-operating with the Police Commissioner, as they both discover a bomb timed to go off on a memorable occasion would be targeted at dignitaries in high office and at the Royal Family itself. Almost too late, the bomb was set to explode on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, at the eleventh hour. Only Con. Lindow can crack the code and stop another bomb. A breath-taking thriller with a surprise ending and a delightful twist in the tale. --- Henry Porter has written for most newspapers. He was editor of the Atticus column on the Sunday Times, moving to set up the Sunday Correspondent magazine in 1988. He contributes commentary and reportage to the Guardian, Observer, Evening Standard and Sunday Telegraph. He is the British editor of the American magazine Vanity Fair and divides his time between New York and London. |
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