Ten Days

It's 4 A.m. And Cathy Mason Is Watching Dawn Break Over The Lovelace Estate. By The End Of The Day, Her Community Will Be A Crime Scene. By The End Of The Week, Her City Will Be On Fire. In This Gripping Thriller, A Death At Police Hands Has Repercussions Far Beyond One Family Plunged Into Grief. As Violence Erupts In The Middle Of A Stifling Heatwave, The Dead Man Becomes A Useful Tactic (or An Urgent Threat) In Political Games At The Highest Level. So While Lives Are At Risk In Cathy Mason's Estate, Across London In Westminster, Careers Are Being Made, Or Ruined. From A Home Secretary's Attempts To Unseat A Prime Minister, To A New Met Police Commissioner Fighting For His Job, To Families Torn Apart: In Ten Days, Orange Prize-shortlisted Author Gillian Slovo Shows What Happens When Politics, Policing And The Hard Realities Of Living In London Explosively Collide. Gillian Slovo. Ten Days by Gillian Slovo is a powerful and unputdownable thriller tracing a riot from its inception through to its impact one year on. It's 4 a.m. and dawn is about to break over the Lovelace estate. Cathy Mason drags herself out of bed as she swelters in her overheated bedroom - the council still haven't turned the radiators off despite temperatures reaching the 30s. In a kitchen across London, Home Secretary Peter Whiteley enjoys the tea that his security detail left for him before he joins his driver and heads to Parliament, whilst his new police chief, Joshua Yares, clears his head for his first day with a run. All three will have reasons to recollect this morning as their lives collide over ten days they will never forget. Ten Days takes an unflinching look at how lives are ruined and careers are made when small misjudgements have profound effects on frustrated communities and damaged individuals. Gillian Slovo's game-changing novel about political expediency and personal disenfranchisement is as page-turning as it is culturally significant. It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire. In this gripping thriller, a death at police hands has repercussions far beyond one family plunged into grief. When violence grips Cathy's estate, the dead man becomes a useful tactic (or an urgent threat) in political games at the highest level. So while lives are at risk on Cathy Mason's estate, across London in Westminster, careers are being made, or ruined. From a Home Secretary's attempts to unseat a Prime Minister, to a new Met Police Commissioner fighting for his job, to families torn apart, Ten Days shows what happens when politics, policing and the hard realities of living in London explosively collide. Wanneer een jongeman wordt doodgeschoten door een politieagent verandert de sfeer in Rockham en worden de levens van de drie personen overhoop gehaald. NL-ZmNBD House of Cards meets Homeland in this powerful and unputdownable thriller tracing a riot from its inception through to its impact one year on . . .