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The Furies: A Thriller
Author:
Alpert, Mark
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Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: PS3601.L
Print Run: 30000
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ISBN-13: 9781250021359
LCCN: 2013031726
Imprint: Thomas Dunne Books
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Pub Date: 04/22/2014
Availability: Out of Print Confirmed
List: $25.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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312 pages ; 25 cm
H 9.48",
W 6.36",
D 1.11",
1.08 lbs.
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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TIPS Subjects:
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Suspense/Thriller
Action/Adventure
Science Fiction
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FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
FICTION / Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering
FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
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LC Subjects:
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Adventure fiction
Artificial intelligence, Fiction
FICTION / Action & Adventure
FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure
FICTION / Science Fiction / General
FICTION / Technological
FICTION / Thrillers
FICTION / War & Military
Science fiction
Suspense fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Adventure fiction
Artificial intelligence, Fiction
Science fiction
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 01/01/2014 |
| Bearing a rare genetic variance, the Furies, once called witches, might have a chance at remaking all humanity when John Rogers meets the gorgeous Ariel and finds himself in the middle of a dangerous war between Fury rebels and their elders. 320pp., 30K, Auth res: New York, NY |
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| Booklist | 04/01/2014 |
| Alpert, author of several technothrillers, including The Omega Theory (2011), adds an element of fantasy in his new book. The story begins with a guy in a bar being picked up by a beautiful young woman. Before their tryst can be consummated, the woman is nearly killed by armed assassins. John Rogers, the guy who had been hoping simply to get laid, is now on the run with the woman, Ariel, and he's about to learn that she is not at all what he thought she was. In the course of the novel, Alpert asks us to believe that witches are real and that a small mutation in their genetic makeup could change the future of humankind. But--and as those who have read the author's earlier books will know already--Alpert has a knack for making unbelievable things seem not only plausible but also completely real. The key here is Rogers, an ordinary man thrown into extraordinary circumstances, who has to learn a new reality on the fly; as he comes to accept, so do we. Alpert's carefully constructed alternate history of witchcraft--and sorcery, too--is very clever. Good stuff. Pitt, David. 320p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2014. |
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| Library Journal Prepub Alert | 10/21/2013 |
| A thriller with a fantasy twist from Scientific American contributing editor Alpert. Witches really do dwell among us, owing to a rare genetic flip-flop, something John Rogers learns too well when he's yanked into the midst of war between the so-called Furies by the beautiful Ariel. From the author of Extinction. 320p. LJ Prepub Alert Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 02/10/2014 |
| The intriguing premise of this scientific thriller from Alpert (Extinction)--that there's a genetic basis for legends about witches--doesn't live up to its potential. On a trip to New York City in search of employment as a social worker, John Rogers picks up a gorgeous woman, Ariel, in a bar. They end up at her Brooklyn hotel room, where she becomes the target of gunmen, whom they barely elude. John soon learns that Ariel belongs to a community that's isolated itself from society after its members were massacred in 16th- and 17th-century Europe for being "different." Because of a mutation, all the males in her clan are infertile, and she's sought out John to procreate. The violence he's been caught up in is the product of a civil war within Ariel's species. The formulaic perilous situations, last-minute escapes, and deaths of significant characters won't be to every taste. Agent: Dan Lazar, Writers House. (Apr.). 320p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2014. |
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