The Chessmen by Peter May
THE NEW START. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. THE OLD FRIEND. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. THE FINAL CHAPTER. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the future.
'May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships' Sunday Times* Sunday Times *
'May's pellucid prose and his clever plot give vivid life to a harsh and rugged landscape and an equally hard-hewn community' The Irish Independent. * Irish Independent *
'Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth' New York Times. * New York Times *
'Steeped in atmosphere ... The Chessmen takes the reader on an enticing reel, forwards, backwards, side to side, every step leading to a breathtaking climax' Daily Record. * Daily Record *
'Stunning' Belfast Telegraph. * Stunning' Belfast Telegraph *
'This is the sort of novel that will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterisation ... a perfectly-formed trilogy' Independent. * Independent *
'Tightly plotted, with no skimping on either the nuances of character or the wonderfully evocative descriptions of rugged island landscapes that have made these books a true pleasure to read' Guardian. * Guardian *
'May's pellucid prose and his clever plot give vivid life to a harsh and rugged landscape and an equally hard-hewn community' The Irish Independent. * Irish Independent *
'Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth' New York Times. * New York Times *
'Steeped in atmosphere ... The Chessmen takes the reader on an enticing reel, forwards, backwards, side to side, every step leading to a breathtaking climax' Daily Record. * Daily Record *
'Stunning' Belfast Telegraph. * Stunning' Belfast Telegraph *
'This is the sort of novel that will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterisation ... a perfectly-formed trilogy' Independent. * Independent *
'Tightly plotted, with no skimping on either the nuances of character or the wonderfully evocative descriptions of rugged island landscapes that have made these books a true pleasure to read' Guardian. * Guardian *
Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels. He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857382245 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857382241 |
| Titel | The Chessmen |
| Autor | Peter May |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Quercus Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2013-01-03 |
| Seitenanzahl | 400 |
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