Direction Of Our Fear : A Novel

BRIGGS David

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On a morning commuter train in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, the lives of three people briefly intersect.

Sally is a 17-year-old, tentatively stepping into womanhood. Brendan is a middle-aged widower, living in the shadow of his wife's death. Tamas is a Hungarian immigrant, missing his wife and child as he struggles to begin a new life in New Zealand.

Meanwhile, in a nondescript building near Dunedin's Otago University, Farida translates messages for the security services and catches glimpses of a plot thatcould threaten them all.

We watch as the characters pursue their dreams and face up to their everyday fears. We see them grapple with love and loss and the tangles of relat ...

On a morning commuter train in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, the lives of three people briefly intersect.

Meanwhile, in a nondescript building near Dunedin's Otago University, Farida translates messages for the security services and catches glimpses of a plot thatcould threaten them all.

We watch as the characters pursue their dreams and face up to their everyday fears. We see them grapple with love and loss and the tangles of relationships, and inevitably dread their impending fate.

In this tightly written novel, author David Briggs develops an original and compelling plot line as he explores the way our lives are played out against a constant background of half-seen threat.

Featured in the 19 September 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
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Publication date: 2016-09-22
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: BMS Books
Subjects: Category, Fiction, NZ Fiction, NZ Thriller / Suspense

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