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21%OFFIain Banks - Dead Air - 9780349139241 - V9780349139241
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Dead Air

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Description for Dead Air Paperback. Iain Banks's classic novel reissued with a striking new cover Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 123 x 29. Weight in Grams: 350.

'A deeply satirical and thought-provoking thriller' Sunday Express

A couple of ice cubes, first, then the apple that really started it all. A loft apartment in London's East End; cool but doomed, demolition and redevelopment slated for the following week. Ken Nott, devoutly contrarian leftish shock-jock attending a mid-week wedding lunch, starts dropping stuff off the roof towards the deserted car park a hundred feet below. Other guests join in and soon half the contents of the flat are following the fruit towards the pitted tarmac... just as mobiles start to ring, and the apartment's remaining TV is turned ... Read more
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Product Details

Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
297 g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349139241
SKU
V9780349139241
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Iain Banks
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. He gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Iain Banks died in June 2013.

Reviews for Dead Air
A thrilling read, it's a dazzlingly clever, edgy, suspenseful book
Scotland on Sunday
Hugely entertaining
Daily Telegraph
Banks's clever, tense book gives a good idea of where fiction might usefully go with this material. Staying away from the media described events at Ground Zero, he impressively details the social aftermath in London: paranoia on underground trains ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Dead Air


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