Whiteout

Author: Ken Follett

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  • : $19.99 NZD
  • : 9781447221654
  • : Pan Macmillan
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  • : June 2015
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : July 2015
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Description

As a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus. Several others are interested in his success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, head of his security team and recently forced to resign from the police, is betting her career on keeping it safe; an ambitious local television reporter sniffs a story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs are on their way to steal it, with a client already waiting. As the storm worsens and the group is laid under siege by the elements, the emotional sparks crackle and dark secrets are revealed that threaten to drive Stanley and his family apart for ever. Filled with startling twists, Whiteout is the ultimate knife-edge drama from an international bestselling author who is in a class by himself.

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Human betrayal, medical terror and a race against time ... 'this is gasp a minute stuff by a vintage practitioner' Daily Mail

Author description

Ken Follett was twenty-seven when he wrote Eye of the Needle, an award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller. After writing more successful thrillers he surprised everyone with The Pillars of the Earth, about the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages, which continues to captivate millions of readers all over the world. World Without End, the sequel, was a number one bestseller in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and France. His most recent project is the Century trilogy a fictional history of the twentieth century, seen through the eyes of five linked families: one American, one English, one German, one Russian, and one Welsh. The series comprises of Fall of Giants (2010), The Winter of the World (2012) and the final volume Edge of Eternity published in the autumn of 2014.