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Books : Fiction : Authors, A-Z : H : Hawksley, Humphrey
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If Humphrey Hawksley's name is familiar, it's probably as a BBC Foreign Affairs correspondent, shouting over the gunfire in Kosovo or Iraq. But with Absolute Measures, his second novel, Hawksley's name may register on the bookshelves. An SAS raid on a house outside Khartoum leaves 13-year-old Sudanese twins Yasin and Samira Omer orphans. Yasin knows that the Englishman Tim Park, supposedly an archaeology student, must have had something to do with it, but inexplicably passes up the chance to incriminate him. Five years later, adopted by the rich and mysterious Abu Musa, Yasin and Samira find themselves caught up in the violent politics of Zamboanga in the Southern Philippines and inexorably drawn back towards Tim Park...Hawksley is no literary stylist,and his novel is stuffed with the kind of sultry child-women, amoral heroes and evil terror-brokers that seem to draw breath only in thrillers. But his quick-fire, fact- filled staccato sentences pump up the pace and the complex politics and exotic locations--Beijing, London, Manila, Sri Lanka, Budapest, Kharachi, Vlissingen--suggest an informed familiarity with the secret intricacies of international espionage. This is the low-down on Foreign Affairs which won't make the Nine O'Clock News. --Alan Stewart
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If Humphrey Hawksley's name is familiar, it's probably as a BBC Foreign Affairs correspondent, shouting over the gunfire in Kosovo or Iraq. But with Absolute Measures, his second novel, Hawksley's name may register on the bookshelves. An SAS raid on a house outside Khartoum leaves 13-year-old Sudanese twins Yasin and Samira Omer orphans. Yasin knows that the Englishman Tim Park, supposedly an archaeology student, must have had something to do with it, but inexplicably passes up the chance to incriminate him. Five years later, adopted by the rich and mysterious Abu Musa, Yasin and Samira find themselves caught up in the violent politics of Zamboanga in the Southern Philippines and inexorably drawn back towards Tim Park...Hawksley is no literary stylist,and his novel is stuffed with the kind of sultry child-women, amoral heroes and evil terror-brokers that seem to draw breath only in thrillers. But his quick-fire, fact- filled staccato sentences pump up the pace and the complex politics and exotic locations--Beijing, London, Manila, Sri Lanka, Budapest, Kharachi, Vlissingen--suggest an informed familiarity with the secret intricacies of international espionage. This is the low-down on Foreign Affairs which won't make the Nine O'Clock News. --Alan Stewart
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