The Deciders

ISBN-13: 9781508411857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 268 str.

Noel Fordham

Opis

"It'll be our secret. You tell me what you need and I'll make sure you get it. Make me better, Professor. What do you say?" The repercussions would be calamitous and her career would be over forever. She shook her head slowly and opened her eyes. "Sure." Faced with the termination of her research into the 'Treatment', Professor Andrea Sterling does a deal with the Devil to keep it going in secret. The 'Devil' is one of her patients - the venomous billionaire industrialist, Sir Atticus Lockhart. His terms are simple: come with him to the snake pit that is the Lockhart family estate where his heirs are gathering to watch him die. Enter Iris, Wesley, Miriam, Francis and Dexter - each proving to be as despicable as the next in their own way as they enter into their father's plan for the next five days. Enter John Granger - the mysterious government man who comes into Andrea Sterling's life at a most perilous moment Enter Sir James Swaffham - the political puppet master with his own agenda for the 'Treatment'. The devastating follow up the THE VERY END OF THINGS, THE DECIDERS is a stark and uncompromising character study of greed, deception and betrayal that will keep you hooked until the final page.