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Ian McEwan

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Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky. Over the course of the following day, unease gathers about Perowne, as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-9/11 streets. A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive man, who to Perowne's professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry's earlier fears seem about to be realised...

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Year
2010
ISBN-13
9781409090083
Genre
FictionCrime & Thriller
Topics
Post-911 anxietyFamily and domestic lifeViolence and its aftermathFragility of happinessWar and political unrest

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