Description: "An intriguing, high-tension novel. . . . Equal parts mystery-thriller, literary novel, and history lesson. . . . Lively and impressively narrated. . . . There is much to be admired in Hill's lush use of language, the potent storytelling, and, most especially, the delightful historical details and exotic locations he excavates." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "Secrets, codes, joltingly painful discoveries: the themes which underpinned Tobias Hill's previous novels . . . are back to full advantage in his new book THE HIDDEN, a tightly wrought, fast-paced literary thriller set in southern Greece. . . . Superbly realized. . . . Hill is a poet as well as a novelist, and his prose is always evocative, fresh and exact. . . . This dark and tense novel renders that experience of discovery and disillusionment with elegantly chilling skill." - Times Literary Supplement (London) "Resonant with classical myth, this is a rich, rewarding story of the outsider--the existential loner searching for his place in the world." - Daily Mail (London) "[An] elegant, sinister novel...Grippingly good." - Marie Claire (UK) "Hill keeps the tension building to a climax which features the most unpleasant final image I've come across in a long time. Quite brilliant." - The Independent on Sunday "A tense thriller." - Oxford Times "Sharply evocative prose. . . . The author's ability to depict the dusty backroads of Greece combined with a palpable overlay of dread is remarkable and unsettling. The background provided about Sparta is intense." - Booklist "Ancient and modern Greece meet in this ambitious . . . story of an archaeological dig whose members have a hidden agenda. . . . The talented Hill is fizzing with ideas. . . . Shocking. . . . Hill's grasp of history is . . . impressive." - Kirkus Reviews "[A] high-stakes, propulsive narrative. . . . The novel's ideas are explored with stylish rigor and a rare boldness made all the more powerful by its surprising lyricism. - New York Times Book Review "[T]his is a wonderful novel: elegant yet savage, restrained yet full-throttled, illuminated by the sort of brilliance that leaves you short of breath." - Daily Telegraph (London) "THE HIDDEN is a cunningly contrived novel about a post 9/11 world in which there can be no cetainties and no real solutions." - Daily Express "Ingenious plot twists. . . and the book's constant sifting of the present through the past is done with admirable intelligence. But what lingers more than anything are these quick, sure, playfully notational passages. You don't often see writing as lively as this." - The Guardian "Apart from everything else that this novel is a beautifully paced thriller, a meditation on loss, guilt, obsession...it is also one of the finest novels written so far about this, our age of terror." - The Observer "This dark and tense novel renders that experience of discovery and disillusionment with elegantly chilling skill." - Times Literary Supplement (London) "A chilly existential thriller . . . dazzling. . . . Hill's use of the thriller structure to make broader commentary about modern life provides many rewarding and intelligent turns. . . . The evocations of Greece and historical details of Sparta are excellent." - Publishers Weekly

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