The burning time

Hanington, Peter

£18.99

Australian inventor and geo-engineer 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. To Winner, climate change is just another engineering problem, and he is determined to find the solution. For the all-powerful fossil fuel industry, Winner is their ‘get out of jail free card’. If he can engineer a solution to a rapidly warming planet then this trillion-dollar business can continue as usual. The stakes – both financial and moral – are high. But does Winner still believe his own lucrative brand of ambitious climate engineering holds the answer? With the Paris Climate conference looming on the horizon, scientists in the same field as Winner begin to disappear in suspicious circumstances.

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Publish Date: 06/07/2023

Description

‘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’ Straits Times

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

Additional information

Weight 660 g
Dimensions 236 × 162 × 36 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

423

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K