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The watchers / Jon Steele.

Steele, Jon, 1950- (Author).

Summary:

"Lausanne, Switzerland. In the cathedral tower lives a strange boy with a limp who talks to the bells. In a luxury penthouse lives a high-class prostitute who's in mortal danger. And in a low-rent hotel lives a private investigator who has no idea how he got there. Jay Harper finds himself in Switzerland on the trail of a missing Olympic athlete. A hard drinker, he can barely remember how he got home last night, let alone why he accepted this job. When he meets the stunning but aloof Katherine in a hotel bar, he quickly realises that he's not the only one in town who's for hire. She's a high-class hooker who can't believe her luck. Which is about to change. For the worse... In the meantime, Marc Rochat spends his time in the belfry talking to the statues, his cat and the occasional ghost. His job is to watch over Lausanne at night and to wait for the angel his mother told him he'd one day have to save. When he sees Katherine, he thinks his moment has come. Which indeed it has. But not in a good way. Three lives, one purpose: Save what's left of paradise before all Hell breaks loose."--Publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 039915874X :
  • ISBN: 9780399158742 (hc.) :
  • ISBN: 9780451416797 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 574 p ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Blue Rider Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Jun 12
Target Audience Note:
All Ages.
Subject: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Lausanne > Fiction
Private investigators > England > Fiction.
Prostitutes > Fiction.
Memory disorders > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
British > Switzerland > Fiction.
Lausanne (Switzerland) > Fiction.
Genre: Suspense fiction.
Occult fiction.

Available copies

  • 7 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Elkford Public Library FC STE (Text) 35170000329474 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

Jon Steele is an award-winning journalist based in Europe. Born in Spokane, he eventually moved to London to work as a cameraman for Independent Television News. After a twenty-year career there, he wrote the critically acclaimed War Junkie, a memoir about reporting in military zones in seventy-eight countries across six continents. He has also shot, written, and directed a number of major documentaries, including The Baker Boys: Inside the Surge, an inside look at an American combat unit in Iraq. The Watchers is Steele's first novel. He now lives in Switzerland.

Jon Steele worked as an award-winning cameraman for twenty-two years, traveling and working through more than seventy countries across six continents for Independent Television News of London. While based in Moscow and Jerusalem, Steele wrote War Junkie, a gut-wrenching memoir covering a year in the life of a news cameraman. The book was published in 2002 and is today recognized as a cult classic of war reportage. In 2003, in Baghdad on the eve of the Iraq War, Steele became disillusioned with television news, put his camera on the ground and quit.
THE WATCHERS is Steele’s first novel. He now lives in Switzerland.


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