Acts of Omission

Author: Terry Stiastny
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Category: Fiction, Thrillers
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

Winner of the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year.1998: foreign minister Mark Lucas is in a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the hands of the government. Now he faces resistance from the diplomatic service who don't want him to return it to the Germans.Alex Rutherford, a young man working for the intelligence services, wakes up one morning with a hangover and a frightening memory that his computer is lost and, with it, the only copy of that disk.When the disk is delivered to the newspaper where journalist Anna Travers works, she finds herself unravelling not just a mystery, but many people's lives . . .Based on the true story of Stasi files of agents in the UK, ACTS OF OMISSION is suspenseful, exquisitely constructed and thought-provokingly topical - it is a novel about the leak of state secrets, the responsibility of newspapers, and the human cost of all of those.

About Terry Stiastny
The majority of Terry Stiastny's journalistic career was spent reporting for BBC News, which she left in 2012. During her time at the BBC, she worked in Berlin and Brussels, covered politics in Westminster and spent many years on BBC Radio 4 news programmes. She was educated at Oxford University, studying PPE at Balliol College and International Relations (MPhil) at St Antony's College. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.

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SKU BK-9781444794311
Barcode # 9781444794311
Brand John Murray Publishers Ltd
Artist / Author Terry Stiastny
Shipping Weight 0.2000kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.700m
Assembled Height 2.200m
Assembled Width 13.900m
Type Paperback

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