The Testimony. James Smythe
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Название: The Testimony

Автор: James Smythe

Издательство: HarperCollins

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isbn: 9780007427918

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      JAMES SMYTHE

      The Testimony

       Copyright

      HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street,

      London, SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by Blue Door 2013

      Copyright © James Smythe 2013

      Cover photograph© Laura Pannack/Gallery Stock

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2013

      James Smythe asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007427901

      Ebook Edition © November 2013 ISBN: 9780007427918

      Version 3: 2017-05-24

       Praise for The Testimony:

      ‘[An] utterly gripping and highly original debut novel … a tour de force of virtuoso writing that explodes off the page’

       Daily Mail

      ‘As if Philip K Dick and David Mitchell had collaborated on an episode of The West Wing … unsettling, gripping and hugely thought-provoking’

       FHM

      ‘A fiercely-imagined dystopia of the near future. Intelligent, visionary and compulsively readable’ Alex Preston, author of

       The Revelations

      ‘A literary post-apocalyptic novel built around a clever conceit’

       Guardian

      ‘[A] high-impact, big-concept, apocalyptic thriller’

       Daily Mirror

      Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence.

       Dr Carl Sagan

       (on the potential existence of a deity, or extraterrestrial life)

      Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence.

       Donald Rumsfeld

       (on the potential existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq)

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Epigraph

       Hoist that Rag

       Things Falling Apart

       Second Comings and Dragons

       Direct Feed

       Breakdown

       The Last Broadcast

       Reckoning

       Push the Slate

       Banging on Dials

       Losing

       Way Down in the Hole

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