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The Devil's Feather eBooks
by Minette Walters
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The Devil's Feather Summary
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“[A] harrowing psychological thriller . . . Walters delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and ‘the secret of freedom, courage.’” –Publishers Weekly (starred) “Have current events finally caught up with Walters’s unremittingly brutal imagination? The latest of her masterful psychological thrillers examines the effects of terrorism as it ranges from Baghdad to West Dorset . . . Genteel and horrifying as ever.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred) “[The Devil’s Feather] takes a sharp turn from hard-hitting war reporting in the Baghdad section to gothic chiller when the setting switches to England. Barton House is a spooky, Brontë-like construction . . . Walters really knows how to write convincing, ever-escalating psychological suspense.” –Booklist “The Devil’s Feather is another Walters tour de force. The combination of fast-moving thriller and acute exploration of the psychotic mind makes this a knockout.” –The Observer “A thriller that really does thrill–partly because we care about its protagonists, and partly because Minette Walters has an enormous talent for old-fashioned story-telling.” –Spectator “A thoughtful and accomplished thriller.” –Daily Telegraph “Walters has succeeded in uniting the traditional crime narrative with a distressing and effective account of the private cruelties that can flourish amid general mayhem. In doing so, she takes the genre to a deeper level.” –The Independent “This is high octane, on-the-edge stuff, at which Walters excels . . . The Devil’s Feather [is] engrossing reading.” –The Times (London) From the Hardcover edition. |
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In each of her previous ten critically acclaimed and hugely popular novels, Minette Walters has explored the dark terrain of the human psyche to give us thrillers of exceptional psychological complexity and suspense. Now, in The DevilÆs Feather, she gives us her most unexpected and electrifying novel yet. In 2002, five women are discovered barbarously murdered in Sierra Leone. Reuters Africa correspondent Connie Burns suspects a British mercenary: a man who seems to turn up in every war-torn corner of Africa, whose reputation for violence and brutality is well-founded and widely known. ConnieÆs suspicions that heÆs using the chaos of war to act out sadistic, misogynistic fantasies fall on deaf earsùbut sheÆs determined to expose him and his secret. The consequences are devastating. Connie encounters the man again in Baghdad, but almost immediately sheÆs taken hostage. Released after three desperate days, terrified and traumatized by the experienceùfearing that she will never again be the person she once wasùConnie retreats to England. She is bent on protecting herself by withholding information about her abduction. But secluded in a remote rented houseùwhere the jealously guarded history of her landladyÆs family seems to mirror her own fearsùshe knows that it is only a matter of time before her nightmares become real . . . . With its sinuous plot, its acutely drawn characters, and its blistering suspense, The DevilÆs Feather keeps us riveted from first to last. It is a dazzling reminder of why Publishers Weekly has dubbed Minette Walters ôAgatha Christie with the gloves off.ö |
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