
Maxwell's Demon
by Steven Hall
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Pub Date 4 Feb 2021 | Archive Date 4 Feb 2021
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Description
This autumn, life is catching up with struggling novelist Thomas Quinn.
Five years ago, his sometimes friend Andrew Black wrote a single, million copy-selling mystery novel and then disappeared. Now could it be that Quinn is being stalked by the hero of Black’s book? His wife Imogen usually has the answers but she’s working on the other side of the world and talking to her on webcam just isn’t the same.
Quinn finds himself in a world that might well be coming apart at the seams. If he can find Black, he might start finding answers.
Maxwell’s Demon forges an entirely new blend of mystery – somewhere between detective fiction, ghost story and philosophical quest. With the same white-knuckle thrills as Hall’s first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, this new book is also a freewheeling investigation into the magic power locked inside the alphabet, love through the looking glass, the bond between parents and children, and, at its heart, the quest for meaning in a world that, with each passing season, seems to become more chaotic and untidy.
Advance Praise
'Labyrinthine, mind-twisting and deliciously diabolical, yet also unexpectedly warm-hearted. Maxwell’s Demon is fantastic'
CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE
'Dazzlingly clever, wickedly playful, devastatingly poignant'
MIKE CAREY
'A cracking detective story that seems to be investigating its own existence'
JEFF NOON
'Anyone who enjoyed The Raw Shark Texts will be delighted'
TOBY LITT
PRAISE FOR THE RAW SHARK TEXTS:
'Inventive, funny and extremely smart . . . I nearly fell off my chair with admiration'
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
'A cult in the making'
Time Out
'A pychological thriller with shades of Memento and The Matrix and the fiction of Mark Danielewski; page-turning, playful and chilling by turns'
Guardian
'Clever, exciting, funny and moving'
Sunday Times
'Very entertaining. The bastard love-child of The Matrix, Jaws and The Da Vinci Code'
MARK HADDON
'Genuinely isn't like anything you've ever read before'
Independent
'No novel with a cat called Ian in it can fail to win a place in my heart'
Daily Telegraph
'Fast, sexy, intriguing, intelligent – The Raw Shark Texts is all these and more: a cult waiting to happen, a blockbuster begging to be made. Steven Hall is a truly fantastic storyteller. Investigate, now!'
TOBY LITT
'An absurdly confident and intriguing debut. Move over Damien Hirst'
Esquire
'Utterly thrilling . . . leaves your heart pounding'
Marie Claire
'A thriller with elements of sci-fi, romance and memoir . . . A cracking read . . . but it's the outrageous inventiveness that marks it out as really special'
Irish Independent
'Dizzyingly good . . . clever, fun, gripping and shot through with melancholy'
Scotland on Sunday
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781847672469 |
PRICE | £16.99 (GBP) |
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