The Rapture

In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. Raised on a diet of evangelistic hellfire, Bethany is violent, delusional, cruelly intuitive and insistent that she can foresee natural disasters - a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion. But when catastrophes begin to occur on the very dates Bethany has predicted, and a brilliant, gentle physicist enters the equation, the apocalyptic puzzle intensifies and the stakes multiply. Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator, or could she be the harbinger of imminent global cataclysm on a scale never seen before? And what can love mean in 'interesting times'? A haunting story of human passion and burning faith set against an adventure of tectonic proportions, "The Rapture" is an electrifying psychological thriller that explores the dark extremes of mankind's self-destruction in a world on the brink.

ISBN 1408801108   Published in London ISBN13 9781408801109 (What's this?)   Height (mm) 198 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Width (mm) 129 Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Spine width (mm) 21 Format Paperback   Academic level General Publication date 04 Jan 2010   Reading age From Pages 352

'An end-of-days blockbuster to haunt your nightmares ... unputdownable' The Times 'A gripping psychological thriller with a gothic flavour ... unputdownable' Daily Telegraph 'A remarkable suspense novel: tart, mysterious and wrenching' Anthony Minghella 'This is a wonderfully unsettling psychological thriller ... An oddly beautiful journey into the darkest corners of the human soul' Mail on Sunday

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