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Starling, Boris

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The New York Times bestselling author of Vodka and Messiah London, 1952. Only hours before he is murdered, a prominent biochemist claims to know something that could change the world. Tracing the victim's final footsteps is ex-spy-turned-Scotland Yard detective Herbert Smith. It leads straight to a secret that is coveted by both the CIA and the KGB, and threatened by the last vestige of the Third Reich. REIVEW: ""a smart bracing look at the legacy of Nazi scientific dreams."" -Seattle Times ""This is how thrillers should be done."" -Baltimore Sun ""Topnotch espionage."" -Library Journal ""Wonderfully unpredictable twists."" -Guardian

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Title of ebook: Visibility
ISBN: 9781429563369
Publisher: Onyx
Internet download file size: 406 kb
Pages: 384
Released online for download: 02-05-2008
Author of eBook: Starling, Boris

Visibility

The fog was coming, without and within.

On the far side of the river, the first smoky tresses were stroking the rooftops with fingers as slim and elegant as a concert pianist’s. If a man had watched for a while, he would have seen the mist crawling slowly across the cityscape, its purposeful stealth that of a prowling cat.

And if a man had watched for a while, he might have felt the first hazings in his head, a gauze which would make the world opaque and through which he would have to reach for his very thoughts.
The fog had come before, but rarely with such purpose. Londoners were nothing if not survivors, however, and they knew when trouble was ahead. Certainly they needed no warning from the weathermen to brace themselves for a bad one.

New Scotland Yard was a riverside riot of turrets, crenellations, and people; a Gothic extravagance that swallowed thousands of worker bees every morning and spat them out again come dusk. Overcrowding was a permanent endemic; the place had grown like Topsy, with new buildings added every few decades to ease the strain, but the problem remained resolutely unallayed. Bounded by the Thames i ... read full excerpt from Visibility ebook