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The High Flyer (Hardcover)

by Susan Howatch (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 585 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown; First Edition edition (7 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316851760
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316851763
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 512,001 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"When I first saw my temporary secretary it never occurred to me to flirt with him". The bemused confidence and upended assumption of this first sentence from The High Flyer, by Susan Howatch, reveal a great deal about the character who speaks it and the shape of this novel as a whole. The narrator, Carter Graham, is a successful London lawyer--a "high flyer"--whose thoroughly secular plan for a perfect life (clothes, car, kids, etc.) is proceeding quite punctually, thanks to her strong sense of entitlement and her talent for social manipulation. The story that follows, however, undermines Carter's confident assumptions regarding the inner lives of the people around her. Carter meets and marries another high flyer, a charming business titan named Kim. Slowly, Carter learns of Kim's involvement in the occult, his Nazi past and the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of his former wife. As the mysteries of Kim's past are revealed to Carter, Kim's personality undergoes a deep and demonic transformation. Carter, terrified, seeks shelter at a Christian healing centre, where a cast of clerics and lay people help Carter reconstruct a life for herself, and a theological and psychological framework that makes some sense of the blindness and betrayal that destroyed her life with Kim. "[C]reation's not about efficiency", explains one character, "it's about love. It's about shedding blood, sweat and tears to make the thing you care about come right. It's about enduring the shadow side of creation and using it so that in the end everything can be brought into the light". The novel's greatest strength is its suspenseful plotting, which calls to mind (thanks in part to the narrator's frequent allusions to) the films of Alfred Hitchcock.. --Michael Joseph Gross


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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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Howatch consistently touches my heart with her work., 17 Jul 2001
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This review is from: The High Flyer (Paperback)
I've read this book 3 times since it was published, as I do all Howatch's books. This novel gives us yet another twist on Nicholas and his coterie that is compelling and thoughtful, but also fun to read. Her books on the church consistently speak to me in a way that nothing else about Christianity does. Because of her, I'm becoming a "closet" Christian! I wish the Christians I've encountered were more like her characters -- real people with problems but also with integrity and commitment to something greater than themselves. When they are portrayed as rigid or stiff necked, the plot usually involves a BIG dose of humility accompanied by a change in perspective. These novels inspired me to expand my reading to include Farrer, Underhill, Julian of Norwich, and The Cloud of Unknowing. I check every week to see if she's got a new book coming out -- hope it's soon!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable and thought provoking, 7 Mar 2001
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This is the first book by Susan Howatch that I have read, and now I am in the process of finding her other books to read. The two main characters, Carter Graham and Kim Betz, are difficult to like at the begining of the book but the author pulls you into the story so well that you have to find out what happens to them. After the first couple of chapters, I found it very hard to put the book down. What I enjoyed most about the novel is the ending. Normally with a thriller you have the climatic finish and are left wondering what happens to the characters after that - but with the High Flyer the last 100 pages tell you the aftermath of the story. I found this book to be unique and fresh - it was a wonderful read.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Starbridge falling, 20 Dec 2001
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To those of us who have read,and thoroughly enjoyed,the Starbridge novels in their entirety,this latest meeting with Darrow and Co will come as a great disappointment.The subtelty and mystique that kept us all rivetted to her earlier novels is completely absent in this book,and the theological eplanations and reasoning tend "take over" the narrative for the last hundred pages or so.
Not worthy of the Starbridge catagory at all.
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I was bought this book as a present for Christmas and put it to the back of my "pile" for reading as I was convinced it was not my sort of book. Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2003 by roonetta

4.0 out of 5 stars A throughly good book and rather thought provoking.
I enjoyed this book immensely. I particulary liked the way Howatch's shows how fragile people can be and the way that even when we are at what may seem like the best times of our... Read more
Published on 15 Jul 2001 by M. E. Spencer

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent continuation of the Starbridge series
This book is a continuation of Howatch's Starbridge series. Although Carter Graham can at times be an irritating protagonist, this is a valid attempt at exploring the culture... Read more
Published on 15 Jul 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars A book I made myself finish
This had the potential to be a good story but the main character was unbelievably irritating - I thought I would scream if I read the word "flufette" (her word for girly... Read more
Published on 26 April 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars Dire
This book is lame for a number of reasons. The narration flows terribly. It's boring in a nutshell, but it's so bad you'll keep reading to see if it gets any better or any more... Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2001

3.0 out of 5 stars A book of two parts
This book had me spellbound and I couldn't put it down and would have given it 5 stars, that was until I reached part 5!! What a waste of paper!! Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars This will probably one of my favorite Howatch books.
Carter and Kim are so difficult to like that I found the first few chapters difficult to get into. However Susan Howatch is a master story teller and once she revealed that... Read more
Published on 21 Nov 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent melding of previous "phases" in her writing career
This was a typical Susan Howatch novel. Never the less, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Susan tends to write a book with many insights into personality issues. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 1999 by Gary Branson

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent melding of previous "phases" in her writing career
This was a typical Susan Howatch novel. Never the less, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Susan tends to write a book with many insights into personality issues. Read more
Published on 12 Nov 1999 by Gary Branson

4.0 out of 5 stars Too dogmatic about religion (for my taste)
I would like to say that Susan Howatch is my number 1 author and I have never so far been disappointed by any of her books. Read more
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