01416cam a2200229 4500 430754944 TxAuBib 180608s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 20-13498728 YDXCP TxAuBib Priest, Christopher. The adjacent / Christopher Priest. London : Titan Books, 2014. 377 pages ; 25 cm. "First published by Orion Publishing Group, London, 2013"--Title page verso. IRGB -- La rue des bêtes -- Warne's farm -- East Sussex -- Tealby Moor -- The cold room -- Prachous -- The airfield. In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed--annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. Present day: a theoretical physicist develops a new method of diverting matter, a discovery with devastating consequences that will resonate through time. FANTASY FICTION. FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / ACTION & ADVENTURE. SCIENCE FICTION. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION FICTION.