Author(s): McEwan, Ian,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 29/10/2005,
Pagination: 304 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Vintage,
Published By: VINTAGE ,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780099469681

Description:
Saturday, February 15, 2003.

Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky. Over the course of the following day, unease gathers about Perowne, as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-9/11 streets. A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive man, who to Perowne's professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell.

But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry's earlier fears seem about to be realised...