From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes--about himself, his faith, and the history of his world--will be tested to destruction.
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“Roy McMillan is one of our most versatile and accomplished voices…McMillan delivers the kind of steady, finely nuanced performance essential to a good suspense story, in which the narrative tension derives from the calculated withholding and unfolding of detail. Expertly written and expertly performed, this top-notch entertainment finds both author and narrator at the top of their form. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Harris’s bleak imagined world issues a clarion call to the present, urging us to recognize the value of progress…Harris is a master of plotting and, in elegant, understated third-person prose, he ratchets the tension ever upwards.”
— The Observer (London)Robert Harris is the author of twelve novels, many of which have reached the New York Times bestseller list. Several of his books have been adapted to film, including The Ghost Writer. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph. His novels have sold more than ten million copies and been translated into thirty languages.
Roy McMillan is a director, writer, actor, and an Earphones Award–winning narrator. Among his audiobook readings are Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, A Dog’s Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov, and The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.