The Windsor Conspiracy
March 28th 2007 11:47
I was looking at the latest new releases in a bookstore the other day and I came across this intriguing thriller.
'The Windsor Conspiracy' is the first novel from New Zealand artist and winemaker Mike Ponder, who now lives in Queensland. A quick look at the blurb reveals that the book sounds like the action-packed lovechild of the recent Stephen Frears film, 'The Queen', and everyone's favourite conspiracy-thriller, 'The Da Vinci Code'. An interesting and daring mix, all the more so for being written by an antipodean, and well - it just sounds like it could be a really fun book.
Also, here's the blurb from the back...
Has the monarchy's lust for power gone too far?
The severed finger of a kidnapped man is mailed to newspaper journalist Joanna Doyle, with a note claiming the victim is none other than H.R.H. Prince Charles. As she has just watched an interview with him live on television, Joanna refuses to take the note seriously. Why then the interest of the Secret Service?
Why do they demand she relinquish the finger and note to them?
Why, only hours later, is she brutally murdered? And why does the Royal Air Force dispatch a Harrier jet fighter to intercept the trawler in which the kidnap victim is being held captive?
The book is published by by Random House and can be found in most bookstores for between 25 and 33 dollars.
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