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Faces of Mist and Flame (Paperback)

by Jon George (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Tor (21 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1405033975
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405033978
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,248,418 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Phoenix Lafayette is a combat correspondent on the Pacific island of Guam during World War II, who comes to believe he can only survive the carnage by enacting for himself the mythical twelve labours of Hercules. And the woman who puts this idea into his head is Professor Serena Freeman of Cambridge University. But Serena is not from 1944, but the present. She has devised a time machine that can put her into the mind of anyone from the past, and 'Nix' is her first experiment. Unknown to her, a government agency has got wind of her invention, and is prepared to secure it any cost, including murder. These two total strangers, separated by time but united by dreams, are now both in deadly danger. And the mathematics of time itself are about to change.

About the Author
Jon George lives in Ipswich, Suffolk, and this is his first published novel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars an accomplished debut, 11 Jul 2004
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It's not often a book proves such a pleasure to read, and the WWII settings that occupy much of this book provide as many visceral thrills as the casual reader could hope for. If you enjoy the work of Richard Morgan and tight, crisp prose that drives the plot along like a runaway steam train, then you could do an awful lot worse than this very fine debut novel.

About the story: this is partly a time-travel story, and partly a visceral journey through a deadly war-torn landscape. Split into two main strands, the narrative follows the young, Oxford-based mathematician Serena on the one hand, as she succeeds in building a time machine that will allow her to 'remote view' events through the eyes of people throughout the past from the point of view of our present. On the other hand, the narrative follows Phoenix Lafayette, an American war reporter caught up in the armed struggle to take Guam from the Japanese occupying forces during WWII.

Serena, having chosen Phoenix as her 'test subject', finds to her surprise that she can communicate with him. At first Phoenix takes the voices he hears to be those of the ghosts that occupy the island, the stories of which he grew up hearing from his grandfather, a native of the island.

In our present, Serena slowly comes to realise that her discovery is of far greater importance than even she may realise, and finds there are political forces arrayed against her, which desire her discoveries at any cost. Despite being separated by several decades, the two plot strands gradually come together, until Serena believes that, perhaps, she can alter the past after all ...

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