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Peter Hanington is the author of A Dying Breed, A Single Source and A Cursed Place, which star old-school radio journalist William Carver. Peter worked as a journalist and radio producer for over twenty-five years, including fourteen years at Radio 4 on the Today Programme as well as The World Tonight and Newshour on the BBC World Service. His field work has taken him around the world, from Russia to Hong Kong, Lebanon, Liberia and South Africa. He currently lives between London and New York and still travels frequently as research for his novels.
*Praise for A Cursed Place* A panoramic thriller that shuttles with aplomb between four continents . . . chockful of vivid characters -- John Dugdale * Sunday Times * An intriguing, timely and unsettling new thriller -- Sam Bourne (Jonathan Freedland) Peter Hanington's remarkable achievement is to have told a story which is as important as it is unputdownable. Anyone vaguely interested in the survival of our species ought to read this book - and will be thrilled they did so -- Amol Rajan Another page-turner from a writer who can take you into gripping worlds, real and virtual -- Mishal Husain Astute, pacy and possibly too true for its own good -- Gillian Reynolds Carver is a marvellous creation, just the sort of tough-as-old-boots hero we need in a world run by algorithms -- Mike Ripley * Shots Mag * Peter Hanington sustains a narrative drive that catapults you from first word to last. Just make sure you don't miss the scenery on the way - seeing from the inside how the BBC works and how news is made leaves you feeling that W1A may not be entirely caricature. A good, pacy, sinister and timely read -- Alan Judd, author of A FINE MADNESS Peter Hanington draws you into the dark world of private cyber-surveillance, and the menace of the world he conjures - the world we all now live in - crackles off the page. His characters are beautifully drawn and so convincing that I found myself shouting Get out of there now! The writing is taut - not a wasted word - and the story is fast-paced, moving and twisting and quickening to a conclusion that is full of jeopardy and suspense. And when it ends, it doesn't end: it leaves you wanting the next chapter * Allan Little * Hanington's third thriller featuring veteran BBC reporter, William Carver, is a true page-turner, combining the author's insights and expertise as a distinguished foreign correspondent with a pace that keeps the reader guessing and embroiled in a plot that sweeps us from Peckham, via Hong Kong and Chile, to the Big Tech citadels of Silicon Valley . . . highly recommended * Tortoise * A Cursed Place is a fast-paced and vividly written thriller. It takes the reader on a journey from the dark heart of Silicon Valley via a Chilean mining town and Hong Kong street protests and into the bowels of New Broadcasting House, in a dystopian tale of ruthless tech entrepreneurs exploiting their surveillance powers and morally compromised journalists feeling their way in the dark towards the truth -- Rory Cellan-Jones A gripping . . . thriller that spins from Hong Kong protests to Silicon Valley surveillance in a heartbeat * i Magazine * Gorgeous . . . blocks out the world when my brain [wants] superb distraction -- Fi Glover
