Il en parle dans cette interview.
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ASM: Your latest book, Great North Road, is a massive undertaking. Can you tell us a little about it?
PH: On the surface it’s a classic murder mystery set in 2143, but with a great many other themes woven around that central narrative, concerning destiny, ecology, wealth, politics, etc. We start with a murder committed in a very specific fashion, one that was used twenty years previously. Logically then it must be the same person who has started killing again. The problem begins with the fact that the person who allegedly committed those earlier murders was caught and convicted. They were in jail when the fresh murder was carried out. Which of course is a huge headache to the authorities who put her there. The policeman, Sid Hurst, who has the bad luck to be given the case, has a nightmare of political supervision imposed on him, yet he never wavers from the job. On top of that is the problem that the killer might not be human.
