The Sleep Of The Dead

Oct 29, 2024 11:24 PM

Author:Tom Bradby

'Elegant, spooky and a compulsive page turner.' - Daily Mail

Julia Havilland had a loving family, a peaceful upbringing and not a worry in the work, until two events shattered her golden childhood: Julia stumbles across the brutally murdered body of neighbour Sarah Ford, and her father is soon after killed in action in the Falklands.

Fifteen years later, Julia returns to England for the first time, ordered to come home while an enquiry is undertaken that may be the end of a spectacular career in military intelligence. But the ghosts of her past are ready and waiting to haunt her.

Praise for Tom Bradby:

'Quite exceptional...Tom Bradby succeeds in creating real characters. Far too many novels take refuge in cliché and caricature - Bradby refuses to. The language, the tension, the fear - all are portrayed vividly and correctly...A taut, compelling story of love and torn loyalties' - Daily Telegraph

'A remarkable first novel...Bradby handles the tension with skill to produce a gripping tale.' - The Times

'The best book on the northern conflict since Harry's Game...An excellent read on any level. It scores heavily as a thriller and as an accurate unblinking look at what is happening right now.' -Irish Independent

Don't miss Tom Bradby's upcoming novel, Double Agent, out in May 2020.

Reviews

'Intriguing and emotive, this is a slow builder that proves to be well worth the wait'

—— The Mirror

'Elegant, spooky and a compulsive page turner'

—— Daily Mail

'A race-against-the-clock thriller and a complex psychological drama'

—— Irish Independent

'Torn apart by loyalties and suspicion, the tension gradually mounts as the pieces of the jigsaw finally fit together into a gripping psychological drama'

—— Choice

'Lives up to the promise of its remarkable predecessor, Shadow Dancer...confirms Bradby's considerable promise as a a thriller writer'

—— Daily Mail

Haunting in every sense. An absorbing novel that finds its eloquence in what is left unsaid and its most vivid imagery in what has been lost, possibly for ever

—— Sunday Times

Matar suffuses Nuri's education in love and loss with an erotic frisson and fragile grace that lend the book an inner radiance

—— Independent

Submerged grief gives this fine novel the mythic inexorability of Greek tragedy

—— Economist

Sensually written, there is an extravagant feel even to the simplest sentence. From start to finish that exquisitely profound quality of uncertainty is the most wrenching aspect of all

—— Sunday Telegraph

A thrilling read

—— Sunday Times

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