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Veteran BBC reporter William Carver is back. This time, he's in Cairo, bang in the middle of the Arab Spring. 'The only story in the world' according to his editor. But it isn't, there's another story, more significant and potentially more dangerous, and if no one else is willing to tell it . . . then Carver will, whatever the consequences. William Carver spots the Arab Spring early, aided by one of the infamous ?Listeners? at the BBC monitoring station in Caversham. He and his producer Patrick chase the story across North Africa before arriving in Egypt where the battle between the corrupt old order and the new will be both bloody and potentially definitive. Meanwhile, in Eritrea, two brothers begin to make their way up from the Horn of Africa and across the continent, desperate to find a better life in Europe. The horrors they endure at the hands of people traffickers and others along the way test their endurance and humanity to its limit. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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He remains, however, a fine journalist with a great nose for the next big story. As this novel opens in early 2011, the next big story is the Arab Spring, and more specifically, the risings in Egypt that have drawn thousands of protestors to rail against the government as they gather in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Carver has managed to establish a network of contacts among the local population, and finds himself receiving advanced notification of several demonstrations. This has, in turn, made him a watched figure. Through those largely anonymous contacts, he comes into possession of a key piece of evidence that all is not as it seems in the authorities’ response to the risings.
Meanwhile, two teenage brothers are trying to escape from their restricted life in Eritrea. Their grandfather, who has established himself as a sort of local fixer, manages to buy them places in a trafficking operation. The boys are assured that, because of their grandfather’s relative prominence in Asmara, they will receive VIP treatment on the secret journey to Europe. This is, however, a lie, an they have to share the same plight of their fellow travellers, crammed into a small truck and driven across the Eastern Sahara, where they are susceptible to discovery by the authorities, falling prey to bandit raid, or simply succumbing to hunger, thirst and the effects of being stuck in too small a lorry with other would-be fugitives.
Peter Hanington succeeds in maintaining the excitement throughout this book. The principal storyline, about William Carver, and the back plot about the escape from Eritrea are masterfully interwoven, and the tension mounts relentlessly. This is one of the best political thrillers I have read for a long time. ( )