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Product Identifiers

PublisherLittle Brown & Company

ISBN-100316497932

ISBN-139780316497930

eBay Product ID (ePID)6050036233

Product Key Features

Book TitleWestwind

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicThrillers / Espionage, Crime, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime

GenreFiction

AuthorIan Rankin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight8.2 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Rankin fans . . . will welcome this reprinting of a state-of-the-art, high-tech international thriller from 1990. . . . A fast-paced blast from the past . . . and (who knows?) maybe the immediate future as well." -- Kirkus Reviews, "[A] techno-action-thriller with its ripped-from-today's-headlines plot...uncanny."-- Richard Lipez, The Washington Post, "[A] techno-action-thriller with its ripped-from-today's-headlines plot...uncanny." -- Richard Lipez, The Washington Post, "Rankin fans . . . will welcome this reprinting of a state-of-the-art, high-tech international thriller from 1990. . . . A fast-paced blast from the past . . . and (who knows?) maybe the immediate future as well."-- Kirkus Reviews

Dewey Decimal823.92

SynopsisFor the first time in the US, this timeless cat-and-mouse classic from the Edgar Award-winning "genius" examines political tensions in an era of espionage (Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series). In Europe, the Americans are pulling out their troops in a tide of isolationism. Britain, torn between loyalties to America and the continent, is caught in the middle. Across the pond, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on board: A British citizen named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become vilified by the US press and protesters. Halfway across the world, at English ground control headquarters, Martin Hepton watches with dismay as they lose contact with the most advanced satellite in Europe. When a colleague who suspects something strange disappears, Hepton realizes there is much more at stake than anyone knows -- and many more people on his trail than he can possibly evade . . .