The Last Hours Before Dawn
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
In the grey half-light between loyalty and betrayal, Reg Gadney's The Last Hours Before Dawn pulls readers into a taut, atmospheric thriller of suspense and moral ambiguity. Set against a bleakly evocative Cold War backdrop, the novel chronicles the desperate final hours of a protagonist caught in a web of espionage, hidden identities, and shifting allegiances, where every shadow conceals a potential enemy and every trusted face may mask a traitor. Gadney, a distinguished British novelist and screenwriter renowned for his precise, cinematic prose, constructs a narrative that is as psychologically rich as it is relentlessly paced. His command of tension transforms each scene into a pressure cooker of dread and revelation, illustrating the human cost of living in a world defined by secrecy and moral compromise. For those who demand their thrillers to carry genuine literary weight alongside pulse-quickening suspense, this novel poses a haunting question: when the last hours before dawn finally break, who — and what — will survive the light?
Author: Reg Gadney
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, BCA
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
In the grey half-light between loyalty and betrayal, Reg Gadney's The Last Hours Before Dawn pulls readers into a taut, atmospheric thriller of suspense and moral ambiguity. Set against a bleakly evocative Cold War backdrop, the novel chronicles the desperate final hours of a protagonist caught in a web of espionage, hidden identities, and shifting allegiances, where every shadow conceals a potential enemy and every trusted face may mask a traitor. Gadney, a distinguished British novelist and screenwriter renowned for his precise, cinematic prose, constructs a narrative that is as psychologically rich as it is relentlessly paced. His command of tension transforms each scene into a pressure cooker of dread and revelation, illustrating the human cost of living in a world defined by secrecy and moral compromise. For those who demand their thrillers to carry genuine literary weight alongside pulse-quickening suspense, this novel poses a haunting question: when the last hours before dawn finally break, who — and what — will survive the light?