Control Shift - Brossura

Manns, Nick

 
9780340765111: Control Shift

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In their new home in the country, Graham and his small sister, Matty, sense terrifying secrets are hidden there. Graham's father works on a state-of-the-art computer-guided weapons system for the future - shortly to be shown to the big players in the international weapons market. Troubled by the shifting presences and his small sister's conversations with an unseen young man she calls Paul, Graham looks for the key to the past. What he uncovers shakes the foundations of his existence: a secret First World War research establishment using British military prisoners as guinea-pigs, and a young man executed for speaking out.



Past and future come together when his father is arrested for treason: the codes for the new weapons' operating system have been published on the Internet. By his father? Or, as Graham believes, the final act of the ghost of 'a young man who felt he'd failed in his own life and has seen the demons driven away in ours ...'

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Recensione

. . . if this impressive work is anything to go by, (Nick Manns) is one to watch . . . well-written, suspenseful and a true page-turner, CONTROL-SHIFT is an uncompromising novel that will leave readers wide-eyed and breathless. (AMAZON.CO.UK)

A challenging and thought-provoking read, which handles time shifts and complex issues with courage and originality. (BOL.COM)

The writer reveals a talent for the atmosphere of the ghostly real as the past permeates the present. (Books for Keeps, no.127, March 2001)

Nick Manns is on to a winner here! (School Librarian, v.48, no.4, Winter 2000)

Descrizione del libro

A profound debut novel of the past and the future, shortlisted for the North East Book Award and the Branford Boase Award.

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9780340899861: Control-shift: With Web Teacher Material

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0340899867 ISBN 13:  9780340899861
Casa editrice: Hodder Murray, 2005
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