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The Spectral Island

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61ر.س.
شامل ضريبة القيمة المضافة
وحدة البيع: EACH
المؤلف:DeBurges, Stephen
تاريخ النشر: 2022
تصنيف الكتاب:الأدب والشعر,الكتب الانجليزية,
عدد الصفحات:376 Pages
الصيغة:غلاف ورقي
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The mountains and waters of Ivundé, in the Indian Ocean, contain something of immense value. To gain control of the Island, a shadowy Middle East group uses the cover of a madrassas-building project to arrange what at first sight is a local extremist takeover. The UK/US, with the help of local sources, and a retired academic and a professional intelligence officer - who discover the truth - use their Special Forces, re-gain control of the Island.

This is a story of deception. Power deceives as it manipulates reality. Those who wield it - the diplomats and politicians - can only behave as their experience and allegiances allow them to, and the Island looks certain to be dragged from its idyllic existence, where time is of little essence, into a hectic Nauruesque future.

Some of those who live on the Island will see only clouds, others, silver linings. They include: Rosalie, a smart, if unsophisticated semi-local, and her US cowboy husband; free-thinkers, Valli and Meera, who, with their daughters, dispense wisdom and Darjeeling from their Emporium in the town; and Madame Lemesurier, owner of the Mirabile, who seeks guidance from her husband, at rest under a marble slab below a baobab in the Hotel gardens.

At the centre of the conspiracy, and under the control of the shadowy Middle East group, is a Chinese scientist. From enforced exile in North Korea, he has been lent to the group and compelled to carry out disturbing research from his prison on a madrassa site.

The wild landscape of the Island, its madrassas construction sites and its hotel, the run-down Mirabilé, provide much of the setting for the story, though the exercise of deception also pushes the action from place-to-place: a faceless office in London, GCHQ, the military bases of Djibouti and Diego Garcia, and the Presidential Palace in the mainland capital.

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رقم الصنف9781800463868
رقم المصنع9781800463868
تاريخ النشر2022
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