The Sanctuary
the gripping must-read thriller by the Sunday Times bestselling author
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3.6 • 21 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Pre-order Andrew Hunter Murray's brilliantly entertaining new thriller A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering coming May 2024!
There's no way back from paradise. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Day, this high-concept thriller will provoke and grip you from the very first page . . .
'Sucks you in and doesn't let you leave until the very last page' Anthony Horowitz
'Smoothly written, thought provoking ... with an effective shocker of an ending' Guardian
'Absolutely brilliant. I'm thinking it needs to be made into a movie!' Zoe Ball
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Sanctuary Rock is a perfect place.
A remote island, owned by a wealthy philanthropist who is building a brand-new world on the ruins of the old one.
Ben only came to the island to bring his fiancée Cara home. But when he arrives, he is rapidly seduced by the vision of a better way of life, as described by the charismatic and mysterious Sir John.
Before long, he decides to stay.
But the island holds darker secrets than he could ever have suspected.
Then he learns the only route back to the mainland is about to close for good.
And his own life may be in terrible danger . . .
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'The considerable pleasure of this novel is in the getting from here to there' The Times
'Gripping, unsettling and original. Andrew Hunter Murray is a fabulous storyteller.' Tim Harford
'Rich in imagination and stylishly written ... Totally absorbing.' Paul Burke, Crime Time FM
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Readers can't get enough of The Sanctuary . . .
***** 'A thoughtful, impressive science fiction thriller.'
***** 'I hope AHM keeps writing books because they are *chef's kiss* perfection.'
***** 'Some great twists, turns and surprises! Thoroughly enjoyable and thought-provoking.'
***** 'I like Andrew Hunter Murray's style ... It was a brilliant read.'
***** 'This book took a totally different turn to what I was expecting! Really enjoyable, stayed up late to finish it as the story was so tense towards the end.'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Near-future thrillers don't come much better than this stellar effort from Murray (The Last Day). Painter Ben Parr lives in an unnamed nation whose monarchy and wildlife are in decline due in part to the changing climate. His fiancée, Cara Sharpe, has escaped the decaying city where she and Ben live for a private island community called Sanctuary Rock, which is owned and managed by Sir John Pemberley. Cara's letters to Ben, which have grown more and more emotionally distant during her stay, hint at "critical work" being conducted at Sanctuary Rock. When Cara fails to return home as planned, she writes to Ben that she will be staying on the island indefinitely to help Pemberley with his "mission." Alarmed, Ben sets out to retrieve her. When he reaches Sanctuary Rock, however, Cara isn't there, and Ben starts to suspect that she's been recruited for something horrifying. Murray excels at building a believable futuristic environment without getting bogged down in minutiae, and he wrings plenty of suspense out of Ben's increasingly harrowing investigation of Sanctuary Rock's mysterious purpose. This fires on all cylinders.
