The Rhythm Section

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mark Burnell

Thrillers & Suspense

HARPER/COLLINS

Chameleon

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Rhythm Section (Stephanie Fitzpatrick series The)

HarperFiction

PerfectBound

The debut of an extraordinary new author -- a novel of how a woman, pushed over the edge by the violent deaths of her family, survives only by taking other identities. Stephanie Patrick's world was destroyed by the Atlantic aircrash. Falling into a downward spiral of prostitution, drugs and drink, she is picked up by a journalist who has discovered that it was a bomb that caused the crash. And it is his murder that pulls her out of herself. The Rhythm Section is not a thriller about the hunt for a terrorist, although that is the path Stephanie takes, and it's not a story about revenge, although justice for her family is her initial motivation. Rather, The Rhythm Section is the story of Stephanie's attempt to reclaim herself. She has to rediscover who she is through a series of roles that she is forced to play; she is never herself. As a prostitute, she is Lisa, the chemical blonde. Later, she is Petra Reuter, German anarchist turned mercenary terrorist. Sometimes, she is Marina Gaudenzi, a Swiss businesswoman, or she's Susan Branch, an American student, or Elizabeth Shepherd, an English management consultant. But whoever she is, she's never herself because her life depends on her being someone else. This is the way she is trained by the intelligence service that recruits her, but it's also the way she's taught herself to be; being someone else has always worked for her and so it does now, until she begins to fall in love for the first time with Frank White. This undermines her completely and poses new questions: which of the many people she has become is the one to have fallen in love? Stephanie? Petra? Or one of the others? With whom has Frank fallen in love? Marina? Or the real Stephanie? More than anything, The Rhythm Section is about a catastrophic crisis of identity.

A debut horror novel which follows a man who has everything until he starts to perform miracles and is sought by the sick, exploited by opportunists, hounded by the media and haunted by a maniac.

Freak

Mystery

New English Library

An astonishing gift is about to transform Christian Floyd's life - the power to heal the sick and save lives. The power to perform miracles. Bewildered by his new talent, he suddenly finds that everyone wants him. He's sought by the sick, hounded by the media - and hunted by a maniac.

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Glittering Savages

Gemini: A Stephanie Patrick Thriller (Stephanie Patrick Thrillers Book 3)

St. Martin's: Griffin

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