Ceremony of Innocence [Import] [Hardcover]

Humphrey Hawksley (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 310 pages
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; 1st ed/1st printing edition (June 4, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0747276285
• ISBN-13: 978-0747276289
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ceremony of Innocence by Humphrey Hawksley, January 25, 2000

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Charles Newmarch (Le Marche, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ceremony of Innocence (Hardcover)

Humphrey Hawksley who is well known as Far Eastern BBC Correspondent and more recently war correspondent in Kossovo and Timor uses his journalistic knowledge of the Far East to reveal in all too chilling and convincing detail what might be going on behind the headlines. He is one of the best informed and therefore one of the more frightening political writers around. Ceremonies of Innocence, his first solo novel, gets China right in many ways (as a Peking resident his descriptions of the streets, the bars, the corridors of government all ring true to me) and his projections of how the future might be - a cynical, sad and slowly more compromised Hong Kong, the forces of reform in a death grip struggle with the old guard in the military and the party, again ring true with the present trends as China goes through a time of great change. But Hawksley's books are not all politics: his cast of characters are real people with testing moral dilemmas,and their predicaments affect you. So do the sensual love scenes. Ceremony of Innocence and its successor Absolute Measures are superb thrillers in every way.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Thriller That Counts, May 8, 2000

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J.A. Schalick (Fairfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ceremony of Innocence (Paperback)

Hawksley's background is impeachable, the subject matter relevant and timely, and Mike McKillip a character potentially worth following. Now that the Cold War is over, we need to turn eyes on the China region he knows so well. First rate.