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In a Veil of Mist
Donald S Murray
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A poisoned breeze blows across the waves ... Operation Cauldron, 1952: Top-secret germ warfare experiments on monkeys and guinea pigs are taking place aboard a vessel moored off the Isle of Lewis. Local villagers Jessie and Duncan encounter strange sights on the deserted beach nearby and suspect the worst. And one government scientist wrestles with his own inner anguish over the testing, even if he believes extreme deterrent weapons are needed. When a noxious cloud of plague bacteria is released into the path of a passing trawler, disaster threatens. Will a deadly pandemic be inevitable? A haunting exploration of the ... Read more
A poisoned breeze blows across the waves ... Operation Cauldron, 1952: Top-secret germ warfare experiments on monkeys and guinea pigs are taking place aboard a vessel moored off the Isle of Lewis. Local villagers Jessie and Duncan encounter strange sights on the deserted beach nearby and suspect the worst. And one government scientist wrestles with his own inner anguish over the testing, even if he believes extreme deterrent weapons are needed. When a noxious cloud of plague bacteria is released into the path of a passing trawler, disaster threatens. Will a deadly pandemic be inevitable? A haunting exploration of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Saraband
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Glasgow, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781913393007
SKU
9781913393007
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Ref
99-2
About Donald S Murray
Originally from the Isle of Lewis, Donald S Murray won the Paul Torday Memorial Award (2020) for his first novel. A writer, poet and teacher, his work has also been shortlisted for the Herald Scottish Culture Awards, Saltire Literary Awards, Highland Book Prize, Author's Club First Novel Award, and the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. His critically acclaimed non-fiction brings to ... Read more
Reviews for In a Veil of Mist
'A moving portrait of a place and its people ... a quiet, sad but brilliant novel.' Antonia Senior, Times, Book of the Month in best historical fiction; 'Set in [Murray's] native Lewis as firmly as the stones at Callanish ... it is so credibly drawn that the book is almost a ticket to the island ... it seems an even ... Read more