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Dead Water
Dead Water

Dead Water

FICTION

400 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: EPUB, Mobipocket

EPUB, $9.99 (US $9.99)

Publication Date: October 2012

ISBN 9781848878914

Rights: US

Atlantic Books, Ltd. (Oct 2012)
Corvus

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Overview

A novel of prodigious scope and ambition, ablaze with imaginative energy and rendered in mesmerizing prose—complete with polar bear attacks, tsunamis, modern piracy, airship crashes, Cold War intrigue, and a djinn

May 25, 1928: Over the frozen seas of the Arctic, an airship falls out of the sky. Among the survivors is a young scientist on the verge of a discovery that will redefine physics. October 3, 1996: Through the dusty industrial towns of India's Great Trunk Road, a disgraced and disfigured female detective starts tracking a criminal syndicate whose tentacles spread from forgery to smuggling to piracy. Her life has been ruined, but she will have her revenge. December 26, 2004: On the island of Bali a tsunami washes up a rusting container. Locked within this aluminum tomb are the mummified remains of a shipping magnate missing for 29 years, and a hand-written journal of his last days. December 13, 2011: Off the coast of Sri Lanka, a tramp steamer is seized by pirates. The captain has his wife and son aboard, and their survival depends on following the pirates' every demand. But what can they possibly want with his worn-out ship and its cargo of junk? We know what they want. We know the ship was carrying a Dead Water cargo, and we know Dead Water is the key to everything. We could spin a thousand stories from this toxic Cold War secret but there's only one of them that can really make a difference. And this is it.

Reviews

"It is unlikely there will be finer fiction written this year."  —Guardian


"A virtuoso display of imaginative plotting."  —Financial Times


"Deceptively readable, dizzyingly constructed . . . Ings's mad, mad world is held together to the very last page by humor, vivid depictions and a deeply compelling emotional core."  —Publishers Weekly on The Weight of Numbers

Author Biography

Simon Ings is the author of the novel The Weight of Numbers and the science book A Natural History of Seeing.