The Burning Time

To discover the truth sometimes you have to play with fire...

By: Peter Hanington

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Hardcover | 6 July 2023 | Edition Number 1

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432 Pages

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'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

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A panoramic thriller that shuttles with aplomb between four continents . . . chockful of vivid characters - Sunday Times

An intriguing, timely and unsettling new thriller

Peter Hanington's remarkable achievement is to have told a story which is as important as it is unputdownable. Anyone vaguely interested in the survival of our species ought to read this book - and will be thrilled they did so

Another page-turner from a writer who can take you into gripping worlds, real and virtual

Astute, pacy and possibly too true for its own good

Carver is a marvellous creation, just the sort of tough-as-old-boots hero we need in a world run by algorithms - Shots Mag

A gripping . . . thriller that spins from Hong Kong protests to Silicon Valley surveillance in a heartbeat - i Magazine

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