The Burning Time, Peter Hanington
The Burning Time, Peter Hanington
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The Burning Time
To discover the truth sometimes you have to play with fire...

Author: Peter Hanington

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Unabridged: 10 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Baskerville

Published: 07/06/2023

Synopsis

Old-school reporter William Carver returns in this deeply topical and dramatic international thriller.

'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 twenty-first century.

'Deftly plotted . . . a propulsive read' Straits Times

'This adrenaline-laced adventure packs a mighty punch' Irish Independent

'A brilliant thriller with a timely and essential reminder of what journalism is supposed to be' James O'Brien, LBC

(P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Peter Hanington

Peter Hanington is the author of A Dying Breed, A Single Source and A Cursed Place, which star old-school radio journalist William Carver. Peter worked as a journalist and radio producer for over twenty-five years, including fourteen years at Radio 4 on the Today Programme as well as The World Tonight and Newshour on the BBC World Service. His field work has taken him around the world, from Russia to Hong Kong, Lebanon, Liberia and South Africa. He currently lives between London and New York and still travels frequently as research for his novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on December 05, 2023

3.5 stars In this 12th book in the Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy series, the sleuth has a busman's holiday. ***** Detective Inspector Aector McAvoy (who recently got a promotion) is cajoled into attending a seventieth birthday party for his mother Cecelia, who he hasn't seen in years. For the occasio......more

Goodreads review by Hannelore on October 02, 2023

Thank you Severn House and NetGalley for the eARC. DS Aector MacAvoy and his wife Roisin are on a quick trip to visit Aector's family, an occasion he's dreading. He quickly realizes they only want him there to find a killer. We learn about Aector's terrible childhood, which explains a lot about him. R......more

Goodreads review by Annarella on December 05, 2023

Another gritty, solidy, and gripping mystery in this excellent series. Twisty, full of surprises and a unexpected solution. Loved it Highly recommended. Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine......more

Goodreads review by Carla on October 24, 2023

I want to thank NetGalley for a chance to review this title. I liked the story plot of this book alot. On the first chapter I didn't think I would like the book.at all. The first chapter was confusing made sense after reading the whole book. I would say the formatting in this book gave me a headache......more

Goodreads review by Dawn on September 24, 2023

I have read several of the books in this series. These are always solid, enjoyable stories with detective Hector McAvoy and his wife Roisin. This one focused on a murder connected to Hector’s (Aector) stepfamily. We learn a lot more about the past experiences that shaped him in this story. His mom m......more

Quotes

A smart and topical thriller Financial Times (Best New Thrillers 2023)

A compelling, fast-paced thriller blended with environmental issues. Hotly topical Sun

This adrenalin-laced adventure packs a mighty punch . . . Peter Hanington's global thriller could not be more topical Irish Independent

Deftly plotted . . . a propulsive read Straits Times

Peter Hanington is a master of his craft and in William Carver he gives us the hero we didn't know we needed in an age of fake news and egregious political liars . . . Hanington's triumph is to blend a brilliant thriller with a timely and essential reminder of what journalism is supposed to be. He rides the zeitgeist like Frankie Dettori rides horses

The Burning Time is terrific. [It] will be a classic of the genre

A wonderfully taut piece of plotting and, like all good roller-coasters, it regularly turns your stomach over as you are swept along; Hanington's endlessly inventive story telling gives you that edgy feeling that everything (the whole world, in this case) could go horribly wrong by the end of the book, and it boasts more bodies than a Jacobean Revenge charity. Thank God for the reassuring presence of William Carver

Well written and paced, this thriller is both a tribute to and a demonstration of the importance of traditional investigative journalism Literary Review

Peter Hanington has a journalist's nose for stories likely to make tomorrow's Radio 4 news . . . The Burning Time is a headline-grabbing thriller Shots Mag

Seeks to expose the dark arts, denialism and danger of the carbon lobby and adds another fine and important thriller to an exceptional series

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