Absolute Measures [Import] [Paperback]

Humphrey Hawksley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; New Ed edition (March 2, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0747259070
• ISBN-13: 978-0747259077
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

I'm a foreign correspondent and the author of best-selling international thrillers. In The History Book, I've used interviews with hundreds of people in dozens of different of countries to draw a credible picture of a scary near-future world and I've created within it Kat Polinski, a bright, vulnerable, unsettled heroine. The first reviews rave about the concept and describe Kat as fabulous, the type of heroine we love to root for. The issues are total government surveillance, contracted out to private companies who control energy supplies for their own gain. True or false? The realistic backdrops match my Dragon trilogy of future global wars and the three stand alone thrillers, mostly set in Asia. But with Kat, I've tried something more ambitious, so please let me know if you think it works.

I live in London and travel crazily. Most recently, I've reported from (in alphabetical order) Brazil, Cyprus, India, Iraq, Israel, Kosovo, Sweden and all over the US. My website is www.humphreyhawksley.com Send me your thoughts on The History Book or any of my reports. One thing I love is lively debate.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Measures, July 22, 2008

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Farooq Tirmizi (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Absolute Measures Pb (Paperback)

On a February evening in northern Africa, Samira and Yasin Omer watch their parents die in the cross-fire of a hostage-rescue. Samira is vivacious and sociable. Yasin is a brilliant student and a thinker. They are twins, left with no family except each other.

ABSOLUTE MEASURES, chilling in its predictions, was published two years before Nine Eleven. It tracks the psychological development of a brilliant young Muslim student, Yasin Omer. He sets out to become an international banker. He ends up planning a devastating and suicidal terror attack. Why?

This extraordinarily prescient novel was written two years before the attacks of September 11, 2001.