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The Sandpit

A sophisticated literary thriller for fans William Boyd and John Le Carré

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The Sandpit

Yazan: Nicholas Shakespeare
Seslendiren: David Bark-Jones
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'A remarkable contemporary thriller – with shades of Graham Greene and Le Carré about it – but also a profound and compelling investigation of a hugely complex human predicament. Brilliantly observed, captivatingly written, grippingly narrated – a triumph' William Boyd

When John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son, he doesn't expect to find them both in danger. Every day is the same. He drops Leandro at his smart prep school and walks to the library to research his new book. His time living on the edge as a foreign correspondent in Rio is over.

But the rainy streets of this English city turn out to be just as treacherous as those he used to walk in the favelas. Leandro’s schoolmates are the children of influential people, among them an international banker, a Russian oligarch, an American CIA operative and a British spook. As they congregate round the sports field for the weekly football matches, the network of alliances and covert interests that spreads between these power brokers soon becomes clear to Dyer. But it is a chance conversation with an Iranian nuclear scientist, Rustum Marvar, father of a friend of Leandro, that sets him onto a truly precarious path.

When Marvar and his son disappear, several sinister factions seem acutely interested in Marvar’s groundbreaking research at the Clarendon Lab, and what he might have told Dyer about it, given Dyer was the last person to see Marvar alive.

© Nicholas Shakespeare 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 Crime Thrillers Espionage Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Political Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Spor Kurgu
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A joy to read, the novel reflects John le Carré's genre-stretching influence on every page: the boys' school setting, the mixture of social comedy and Hitchcockian shenanigans, the astute, sophisticated prose, the central philosophical dilemma, and the exploration of what it means to be English in a globalised world.
Wonderfully well written...old school in the best possible way, with an insidious escalation of menace, and paranoia that fairly shimmers off the pages
A remarkable contemporary thriller – with shades of Graham Greene and Le Carré about it – but also a profound and compelling investigation of a hugely complex human predicament. Brilliantly observed, captivatingly written, grippingly narrated – a triumph
The best evocation of Oxford since Brideshead (Allan Massie)
A grimly absorbing literary thriller with shades of John le Carre... opens a window onto the murky world of international nuclear policy and espionage amorality
Quite simply excellent. If you're looking for something exciting and sinewy to read, this is it. There's no mistaking quality when it appears in book form
A beautifully considered, subtle exploration of Englishness, of betrayal, of social change and character - elegantly and engagingly wrapped in a classic spy novel
Echoes of Greene, Conrad and Le Carre. Yet these influences have been absorbed as good writers always absorb the influence of their predecessors and go beyond it to make something that is wholly their own...One good test of novel is: does it re-read? Well, I've now read The Sandpit twice, and I'm pretty sure I shall read it again in a few months' time
Shakespeare sets up the myriad pressures on his protagonist with consummate skill, keeping the reader guessing about the motives of everybody Dyer encounters. There are more than a few hints of Graham Greene and John Le Carre here... In its exploration of how individual actions can have huge and unexpected ramifications, The Sandpit is an enthralling read....the theme of how ordinary individuals negotiate the pressures brought down on them by extraordinary events generates superb drama.'
Exceptionally well written
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A fascinating premise is set up, and the first third or so is quite interesting, but then almost nothing else happens at all. I was extremely bored by the end.

A promising start and then peters out

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A gripping story beautifully narrated and one which poses many interesting questions for the reader.

The Sandpit

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Dyer is a former broadsheet foreign correspondent, with principles, who gives up his job when instructed to do something he doesn't like. He has a son by an estranged Latin American beauty, who he has placed in a private he attended as a boy. Through the school he meets an Iranian physicist who has discovered something incredible. What follows is beautifully told tale of intrigue in the academic world of Oxford.

Fantastic: intrigue, very well written, brilliant

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If you love Oxford this book makes the modern city really live reflecting the influx to North Oxford London and International monied families. He really gets the world of North Oxford prep school life and the society of parents and children. Threaded through this canvas is a ripping yarn. Hard to put down once stated.

Great Story beautifully written and narrated

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Nicely read but I struggled with this book. Did not feel characters really came alive.

Hard to keep interested

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