The dying light / Henry Porter.
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TextPublication details: London : Orion, 2009Description: 402 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780752874845 (hbk.); 0752874845 (hbk.)Subject(s): Suspense fiction, English | Intelligence officers -- Fiction | Conspiracy -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Wills -- Fiction | Wills Fiction | Women intelligence officers -- Fiction | Women intelligence officers | Roman | Englisch | Intelligence officers Fiction | Secrecy Fiction | Conspiracy Fiction | Suspense -- Fiction | Suspense fictionGenre/Form: Suspense fiction | Suspense fiction. | Suspense fiction. | Political fiction. | Thriller | Spy and Espionage | Adventure | Fiction. | Spy stories. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: 823.92 LOC classification: PR6066.O715 | D95 2009Summary: Kate Lockhart has come with corporate leaders, ministers and intelligence chiefs to a beautiful town in the Welsh Marches to mourn her soul mate, David Eyam, the brightest government servant of his generation. All that remains of Eyam are the burnt fragments of a man killed far from home in a devastating explosion. But Eyam has left a devastating legacy and certain members of the congregation on that bitterly cold March day are desperate to suppress it. A group of locals come to feel the full weight of the state's determination. Jessica Lockhart, now a Mergers and Acquisitions lawyer from Manhattan but a former SIS officer in Indonesia is equal to Eyam's legacy . She becomes the focus of the state's paranoiac power and leads the local resistance to it, with all the cunning of her former trade, directed from beyond the grave by Eyam. The state is no match for the genius of the dead.
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Kate Lockhart has come with corporate leaders, ministers and intelligence chiefs to a beautiful town in the Welsh Marches to mourn her soul mate, David Eyam, the brightest government servant of his generation. All that remains of Eyam are the burnt fragments of a man killed far from home in a devastating explosion. But Eyam has left a devastating legacy and certain members of the congregation on that bitterly cold March day are desperate to suppress it. A group of locals come to feel the full weight of the state's determination. Jessica Lockhart, now a Mergers and Acquisitions lawyer from Manhattan but a former SIS officer in Indonesia is equal to Eyam's legacy . She becomes the focus of the state's paranoiac power and leads the local resistance to it, with all the cunning of her former trade, directed from beyond the grave by Eyam. The state is no match for the genius of the dead.
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