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April 8, 2014 09:35 pm PDT
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The Adjacent, by Christopher Priest [exclusiveexcerpt]
The eagerly anticipated new novel from one of the master illusionists of our time. (Wired)Summary: Near future: Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killedannihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier: Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. Present day: A theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time.
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