Airs Above The Ground
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: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When Vanessa March spots her supposedly travelling husband in a television newsreel — standing at the scene of a fire at a travelling circus in Austria — she wastes no time in engineering her own journey to uncover the truth, drawing her young companion Tim Lacy into a web of secrets, smuggling, and Cold War intrigue set against the sweeping backdrop of the Austrian countryside. Airs above the Ground is a masterfully constructed thriller from Mary Stewart, first published in 1965, that fuses the breathless pace of a spy novel with the tender pull of a romantic mystery. Stewart's signature style — precise, evocative prose charged with atmosphere and a sharp wit — is on full display as she anchors the novel's mounting suspense against the magnificent world of the Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School, whose legendary airs above the ground movements serve as both a stunning set piece and a potent symbol of grace under pressure. The novel illustrates Stewart's unmatched gift for weaving the domestic and the dangerous into a seamless whole, leaving the reader wondering, until the very last page, just how many secrets can be hidden in plain sight.
Author: Mary Stewart
Format: Paperback
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When Vanessa March spots her supposedly travelling husband in a television newsreel — standing at the scene of a fire at a travelling circus in Austria — she wastes no time in engineering her own journey to uncover the truth, drawing her young companion Tim Lacy into a web of secrets, smuggling, and Cold War intrigue set against the sweeping backdrop of the Austrian countryside. Airs above the Ground is a masterfully constructed thriller from Mary Stewart, first published in 1965, that fuses the breathless pace of a spy novel with the tender pull of a romantic mystery. Stewart's signature style — precise, evocative prose charged with atmosphere and a sharp wit — is on full display as she anchors the novel's mounting suspense against the magnificent world of the Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School, whose legendary airs above the ground movements serve as both a stunning set piece and a potent symbol of grace under pressure. The novel illustrates Stewart's unmatched gift for weaving the domestic and the dangerous into a seamless whole, leaving the reader wondering, until the very last page, just how many secrets can be hidden in plain sight.