William Boyd's Ordinary Thunderstorms

#ads Get premium access to stream any unabridged audiobook by starting your free trial: https://booksreader.space/al-6870/ Title: Ordinary Thunderstorms Series: A Novel Author: William Boyd Narrator: Gideon Emery Format: Unabridged Length: 12:01:00 Release date: 02-23-10 Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 185 votes Genres: History Publisher's Summary: One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everythinghome, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phonenever to get them back. The police are searching for him. There is a reward for his capture. A hired killer is stalking him. He is alone and anonymous in a huge, pitiless modern city. Adam has nowhere to go but downunderground. He decides to join that vast army of the disappeared and the missing who throng Londons lowest levels as he tries to figure out what to do with his life and struggles to understand the forces that have made it unravel so spectacularly. Adams quest will take him all along the river Thames, from affluent Chelsea to the gritty East End, and on the way he will encounter all manner of Londons denizensaristocrats, prostitutes, evangelists, and policewomenand version after new version of himself. Ordinary Thunderstorms, William Boyds electric follow-up to his award-winning Restless, is a profound and gripping novel about the fragility of social identity, the corruption at the heart of big business, and the secrets that lie hidden in the filthy underbelly of every city.