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Ordinary thunderstorms / William Boyd.

by Boyd, William, 1952-

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Random House Canada, c2010.

Climatologists -- Fiction.

Conspiracies -- Fiction.

Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Fiction.

9780307358219 (2011 Vintage Canada pbk.)

403 p. ; 24 cm.

Originally published: London : Bloomsbury Pub., 2009.

"It is May in Chelsea, London. The glittering river is unusually high on an otherwise ordinary afternoon. Adam Kindred, a young climatologist is in town for a job interview, ambles along the Embankment, admiring the view. He is pleasantly surprised to come across a little Italian bistro down a leafy side street. During his meal he even strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents through which Adam will lose everything - home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, mobile phone - never to get them back. The police are searching for him. There is a reward for his capture. A hired killer is stalking him. He is alone and anonymous in a hugh, pitiless modern city. Adam has nowhere to go but down - underground. He decides to join that vast army of the disappeared and the missing that throng London's lowest levels as he tries to figure out what to do with his life and struggles to understand the forces that have made it unravel so spectacularly. His quest will take his along the River Thamas, from affluent Chelsea to the East End, and on the way he will encounter all manner of London's denizens - aristocrats, prostitutes, evangelists and policewomen among them - and version after new version of himself."--Inside front jacket

Suspense fiction.

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