JAMES SMYTHE
The Testimony
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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First published in Great Britain by Blue Door 2013
Copyright © James Smythe 2013
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Source ISBN: 9780007427901
Ebook Edition © November 2013 ISBN: 9780007427918
Version 3: 2017-05-24
‘[An] utterly gripping and highly original debut novel … a tour de force of virtuoso writing that explodes off the page’
Daily Mail
‘As if Philip K Dick and David Mitchell had collaborated on an episode of The West Wing … unsettling, gripping and hugely thought-provoking’
FHM
‘A fiercely-imagined dystopia of the near future. Intelligent, visionary and compulsively readable’ Alex Preston, author of
The Revelations
‘A literary post-apocalyptic novel built around a clever conceit’
Guardian
‘[A] high-impact, big-concept, apocalyptic thriller’
Daily Mirror
Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence.
Dr Carl Sagan
(on the potential existence of a deity, or extraterrestrial life)
Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence.
Donald Rumsfeld
(on the potential existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq)
Table of Contents
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