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THE BURNING TIME - PETER HANINGTON KARTONIERT (TB)

'Smart and topical' Financial Times (An FT Best New Thriller 2023)'A compelling  fast-paced
thriller' Sun Australian inventor and geoengineer Clive Winner is the genius who brought the
Great Barrier Reef back from the brink  yet his ambition goes well beyond that. He wants to
save the planet. For the all-powerful fossil fuel industry  Winner is their 'get out of jail
free card'. If he can engineer a solution to climate change  business can continue as usual.
When old-school journalist William Carver is tipped off by a trusted Whitehall source that
climate scientists have begun to go missing in suspicious circumstances  his gut instinct tells
him to follow the story. It rapidly becomes clear that scientists  green campaigners and
well-intentioned politicians are in the firing line  William Carver and his colleagues must
move fast to find out who is behind the disappearances. They know the journalist's job is to
speak truth to power - but first you must uncover that truth and this time it's buried deeper
than ever. Racing between Sydney  New York  Seville and London  The Burning Time is an
intelligent  timely and fast-paced thriller for the 21st century. 'A tribute to and a
demonstration of the importance of traditional investigative journalism' Literary Review
'Deftly plotted . . . a propulsive read' Straights 'The Burning Time is terrific. [It] will be
a classic of the genre' Peter Hennessy  author of A Duty of Care 'A wonderfully taut piece of
plotting [. . .] endlessly inventive storytelling' Edward Stourton

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