The Sanctuary

The Sanctuary

Andrew Hunter Murray

Andrew Hunter Murray

THERE'S NO WAY BACK FROM PARADISE . . .By the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Last Day, this high-concept thriller will provoke and grip you from the very first page.'Imaginative and intriguing ... Andrew Hunter Murray is a young writer to watch.' Anthony Horowitz'Absolutely brilliant. I'm thinking it needs to be made into a movie!' Zoe Ball'Gripping, unsettling and original. Andrew Hunter Murray is a fabulous storyteller.' Tim Harford'Rich in imagination and stylishly written ... Totally absorbing.' Paul Burke, Crime Time FM'The (considerable) pleasure of this novel is in the getting from here to there.' The Times'This is a smoothly written, thought-provoking tale about ageing societies and wealth inequality, with an effective shocker of an ending.' The Guardian___________________In a disintegrating and increasingly lawless land, a...
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The Last Day

The Last Day

Andrew Hunter Murray

Andrew Hunter Murray

A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future—with clear parallels to today's headlines—in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled upon a secret that the government will go to any lengths to keep hiddenTHE WORLD HAS STOPPED TURNING. THE HUNT HAS JUST BEGUN.It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a solar catastrophe began to slow the planet's rotation to a stop. Now one half of the globe is permanently sunlit, the other half trapped in an endless night. The United States has colonized the southern half of Great Britain—lucky enough to find itself in the narrow habitable region left between frozen darkness and scorching sunlight—where both nations have managed to survive the ensuing chaos by isolating themselves from the rest of the world.Ellen Hopper is a scientist living on a frostbitten rig in the cold Atlantic. She...
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