Rune

fter Harry Buckingham's father is killed in a freak accident, other people that he knows start dying in bizarre ways and pieces of paper bearing undecipherable messages in strange angular characters are found on some of their bodies.

A multinational company has merged ancient magic with a high-tech delivery system and is putting it to sinister use.

Harry has to join forces with a motley group of people including a female truck-driver, the librarian of a collection of books about magic and the occult, a nine-year-old hacker and some rather unusual policemen in order to work out what is going on.

Fun read of two uncommon detectives. Having read Christopher Fowler for the first time, I'm looking forward to his other books, especially those of the Bryant and May series.

Dans tout Londres des gens sont victimes d'accidents aussi bizarres que sanglants. On retrouve sur leurs corps d'étranges bandes de papier couvertes de hiérogliphes indéchiffrables. Harry Buckingham, un publicitaire, se trouve plongé au coeur du mystère. Plusieurs de ses proches meurent de manière atroce. Bientôt soupçonné, il lui faut fuir la police et mener sa propre enquête. Il découvre avec stupeur qu'une multinationale a réussi à combiner l'antique magie des runes et l'informatique la plus sophistiquée. Le diable a lancé une OPA sauvage sur la société industrielle et ses techniques de marketing sont d'une redoutable efficacité.

Un horror pieno di tensione.