The High Flyer
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Die erfolgreiche Londoner Anwaltin Graham Carter hat Macht, Sex-Appeal, und ein geordnetes Leben. Alles ist nach Plan verlaufen, einschließlich ihrer Ehe mit Kim Betz, einem Investment-Banker. Das einzige Problem ist Kim's Ex-Frau. Sophie beginnt Carter wie ein Schatten folgen.
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Die erfolgreiche Londoner Anwaltin Graham Carter hat Macht, Sex-Appeal, und ein geordnetes Leben. Alles ist nach Plan verlaufen, einschließlich ihrer Ehe mit Kim Betz, einem Investment-Banker. Das einzige Problem ist Kim's Ex-Frau. Sophie beginnt Carter wie ein Schatten folgen.
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A gripping two-pronged tale of psychological terror and spiritual redemption. The New York PostSuccessful London lawyer Carter Graham has power, sex appeal, and a well-ordered life. Everything has gone according to plan, including her recent marriage to Kim Betz, an investment banker with the right combination of looks and position. On the surface it appears to be a match made in heaven. The only problem is Kim s ex-wife. Sophie begins to follow Carter like a shadow, making outrageous claims about Kim s involvement in the occult.
Convincing herself that Sophie is mad, Carter moves ahead with her life. But something is amiss and as Sophie s stories are corroborated by other unwelcome disclosures from Kim s past, Carter is thrown into a terrifying web of suspicion and betrayal, pushing her sanity to the edge. In desperation, Carter seeks help from Nicholas Darrow, the charismatic priest of St. Benet s Healing Center. Though a religious skeptic, Carter hopes to stem the tide of darkness that threatens to envelop her life and begins a compelling journey into the very nature of good and evil, wisdom and redemption. . . .
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Flirting with the EnemyThere is no shortage of highly individualised beliefs. In fact I am constantly amazed at what people do believe; half-remembered bible stories, odd bits of science fiction, snippets of proverbial wisdom passed on through grandmothers or glossy magazines. *** We are bombarded with different beliefs, different values, different customs, different interpretations. Experts give us different and incompatible analyses. We are faced with a kaleidoscope of different images. And the overall effect, I suggest, is to reduce all differences to the same level, to make us immune to real distinctions, to imply that the most we can hope for is not truth but mere opinion.
john habgood
Confessions of a Conservative Liberal
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A helpful exercise is to ask ourselves what our main life-shaping desires are. What do we most want to do and be? What are the priorities we feel most deeply about?
david f. ford
The Shape of Living
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When I first saw my temporary secretary it never occurred to me to flirt with him. Even in 1990, when suing for sexual harassment was still considered to be primarily an American activity, an office flirtation would have been considered unwise for a high flyer, and besides, this particular male hardly struck me as being irresistible. He had curly hair, chocolate-coloured eyes and a chunky, cherubic look. My taste in men has never encompassed overgrown choirboys.
Walking into my office I found him stooped over my computer, and since I was not expecting a male secretary I assumed he was someone from the maintenance department. I did notice that he was dressed as an office drone in a grey suit, drab tie and white shirt, but maintenance men often resembled office drones these days; it was a side-effect of the technological revolution.
Abruptly I demanded: What s the problem? and added for good measure: Who the hell are you? I always feel irritable on Monday mornings.
He glanced up, decided I was just another
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dumb blonde hired to massage a keyboard and made the big mistake of adopting a patronising manner. Relax, sweet pea, he said casually, I m the temp from PersonPower International! I ve been assigned for two weeks to Mr. Carter Graham.
I dropped my bag on the visitor s chair, folded my arms across my chest and dug my high heels into the carpet. Then I said in a voice designed to bend nails: I m Carter Graham.
The man jumped as if stung by a bee, and as his head jerked up I realised that his square jaw was incompatible with the choirboy image. I beg your pardon, ma am, he said at once. I must have misunderstood the lady in personnel who directed me here.
The lady in personnel must be suffering from amnesia. She knows I only work with female temps.
I m sorry to hear that, ma am, but let me reassure you by saying
You re gay.
No, but I can do everything women and gays can do with computers, and I ve even taken a course in DTP.
I saw no reason to put up a front by pretending to know what this latest technological time-waster was. DTP?
Desk-Top Publishing, ma am.
I don t approve of dubious activities taking place on a desk-top. Are you seriously seriously trying to tell me that PersonPower International have had the nerve to send a heterosexual white Anglo-Saxon male to work in my office?
Maybe they see it as their contribution to multiculturalism, ma am.
Worried about my ability to keep a straight face I turned aside, tramped to the window and stared at the crowded street four floors below. Only after I had carefully counted to ten did I swing back
I dropped my bag on the visitor s chair, folded my arms across my chest and dug my high heels into the carpet. Then I said in a voice designed to bend nails: I m Carter Graham.
The man jumped as if stung by a bee, and as his head jerked up I realised that his square jaw was incompatible with the choirboy image. I beg your pardon, ma am, he said at once. I must have misunderstood the lady in personnel who directed me here.
The lady in personnel must be suffering from amnesia. She knows I only work with female temps.
I m sorry to hear that, ma am, but let me reassure you by saying
You re gay.
No, but I can do everything women and gays can do with computers, and I ve even taken a course in DTP.
I saw no reason to put up a front by pretending to know what this latest technological time-waster was. DTP?
Desk-Top Publishing, ma am.
I don t approve of dubious activities taking place on a desk-top. Are you seriously seriously trying to tell me that PersonPower International have had the nerve to send a heterosexual white Anglo-Saxon male to work in my office?
Maybe they see it as their contribution to multiculturalism, ma am.
Worried about my ability to keep a straight face I turned aside, tramped to the window and stared at the crowded street four floors below. Only after I had carefully counted to ten did I swing back
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Autoren-Porträt von Susan Howatch
Susan Howatch was born in 1940. She obtained a law degree from London University and then immigrated to the United States, where she lived for eleven years. During that time she wrote eight novels, including her international bestsellers Penmarric and The Wheel of Fortune. In 1980 she returned to England, where she began to study Church history. The result was the six novels that make up the Starbridge series. In 1993 she made headlines by funding a lectureship in theology and natural science at Cambridge University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Susan Howatch
- 2001, Repr., 528 Seiten, Maße: 14 x 20,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0345439481
- ISBN-13: 9780345439482
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.11.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A gripping two-pronged tale of psychological terror and spiritual redemption. The New York PostAn intriguing adventure into the unexpected . . . A story filled with unanticipated and thought-provoking turns. The Denver Post
Susan Howatch may well become the Trollope of the twentieth century. . . . She is a skilled storyteller. The Washington Post Book World
One of the most original novelists writing today. Cosmopolitan
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