Isbn: 9798190510249 - dirk strangelove: the war is already over (2 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dirk Strangelove is dead. His memories are not finished with him.As rain falls over Sanctuary and a friend speaks his name, Dirk is carried back to the day he first entered the city: young, physically whole and certain that any identity could be worn without becoming a prison.A violent raid on a Ministry transport reveals his gift for Faith-the dangerous art of persuading people, machines and reality itself to accept a useful lie. It also brings him to the attention of Sanctuary's secretive authorities and into the path of Severin Holt, a former Hunter with an impossible promise.Holt intends to use Blackwater's rail-signalling network to make one statement binding for everyone: the war is already over.If he succeeds, the killing may end overnight. So may the freedom to disagree, remember differently or choose what peace means.With a civilian train racing towards catastrophe and Sanctuary preparing its own ruthless solution, Dirk must decide whether the world can be saved without forcing it into a single story. Each lie can alter reality-but the greatest lies alter the person telling them.The War Is Already Over is a darkly comic metaphysical action thriller about memory, identity, free will and the stories people become.…