The High Flyer: Number 2 in series
By (Author) Susan Howatch
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
3rd March 2004
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
592
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 42mm
460g
WHEN YOU LIVE THE DREAM, YOU LIVE THE CONSEQUENCES...Cool, blonde Carter Graham is a successful lawyer who believes she is well on the way to reaching all the goals listed in her glamorous life plan: first-class job, a stylish flat in the City of London, and marriage to the man of her dreams, Kim Betz. But Carter forgot that sometimes the best laid dreams turn into nightmares. Kim's ex-wife Sophie starts to stalk her and Kim turns from being the self- contained, controlled husband into a man who lies not only about his past but about his present, too. Carter finds herself drawn into an expanding web of deceit, corruption and evil which eventually threatens not only her sanity but her life. What is it that Sophie is trying so hard to tell her Who is the sinister Mrs Mayfield, who has such a malign influence on Kim And what is the significance of the other new man in Carter's life, her secretary Eric Tucker Carter seeks help from the healers of St. Benets, the enigmatic Nicholas Darrow, the eccentric Lewis Hall, and the kind, thoughtful Alice but even they cannot save her from a searing ordeal as she struggles to uncover the truth about the tormented man she has married.
I picked up her latest, THE HIGH FLYER, and put it down only to start the preceding one... The woman's brilliant" You Magazine. "Unputdownable...hugely ambitious" Daily Express "Howatch's skills as a novelist are consummate: her characters and her contexts live...One of the bravest books I've read" Church Times
Born in 1940 Susan graduated in law then emigrated to America where she married, had a daughter & began her career as a writer. She returned to England after 4 years in Ireland living first in Salisbury - inspiration for the very successful Starbridge sequence & now lives in London.