The High Flyer: A Novel - Rilegato

Howatch, Susan

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ISBN 10: 0375410570 ISBN 13: 9780375410574

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Riassunto

High-powered London attorney Carter Graham's perfect life with her new husband is shattered by the revelation of her husband's secret ties to the occult and the Nazis, and an increasingly desperate Carter seeks aid from Nick Darrow, the mysterious head of St. Benet's Healing Center, as she struggles to come to terms with her own life and marriage

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Informazioni sull?autore

Susan Howatch was born in 1940. She obtained a law degree from London University and then immigrated to the United States, where she lived for eleven years. During that time she wrote eight novels, including her international best-sellers <b>Penmarric</b> and <b>The Wheel of Fortune</b>. In 1980 she returned to England, where she began to study Church history. The result was the six novels that make up the Starbridge series. In 1993 she made headlines by funding a lectureship in theology and natural science at Cambridge University.

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m is a successful, financially secure London lawyer in her mid-thirties, a partner in her firm. She has the perfect clothes, the perfect car, the perfect apartment and, as of a few months ago, the perfect husband. She is perfectly on track, exactly where she hoped to be at this point in her life. Except that reality is about to change her course.<br><br>Carter slowly begins to learn that her husband, Kim, is not what he seems. People from his past hint at a serious involvement in the occult and at a connection between his family and the Nazis. Carter has a disturbing encounter with the "psychic healer" who warned Kim against their marriage; and, even more alarming, with what seems to be the ghost of Kim's ex-wife, recently deceased in a suspicious accident. Kim grows more and more cagey in his explanations for his increasingly devious behavior. Bit by bit, everything Carter thought she knew about him--and about herself--is called into question.<br> <br>Her world shattering--is sh

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375410570
• ISBN 13: 9780375410574
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 500
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile