1989

1989. Verden er på randen af en revolution, og journalisten Allie Burns er tilbage. ældre og måske lidt klogere, leder hun nu nyhedsafdelingen på The Sunday Globe i Glasgow. Hun er ikke længere graverjournalist, men nyhedsredaktør og stadig skrækslagen for at ende i rendestenen sammen med de brutale britiske tabloidmedier. Og hun får travlt. året begynder med en mindegudstjeneste for ofrene fra Lockerbie-bombningen, og Allie har knap nok leveret den historie, før hun falder over en chokerende historie om aids-patienter. Den avisverden hun opererer i er under stærk forandring, og den kolde krig præger tiden. Da et mord sker, bliver Allie tvunget til at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved flere af sine gamle overbevisninger. 1989 er anden bog i en planlagt serie på fem bind om Allie Burns. Vi følger hende fra 1979 og frem gennem fem årtier, på rejsen fra ung journalist til garvet ekspert, gennem mordsager og op- og nedture i karrieren, med Storbritanniens historie som medrivende bagtæppe. Allie Burns er baseret på Val McDermids egne erfaringer som ung journalist i 1970'ernes Glasgow.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 1989. The world is on the brink of revolution and journalist Allie Burns is a woman on a mission. When she discovers a lead about the exploitation of society's most vulnerable, Allie is determined to investigate and give voice to the silenced. Elsewhere, a ticking clock begins the countdown to a murder. As Allie begins to connect the dots and edges closer to exposing the truth, it is more shocking than she ever imagined. There's nothing like a killer story, and to tell it, Allie must risk her freedom and her life . . . The brand-new unmissable, heart-stopping thriller from number one bestseller Val McDermid ___________ Praise for the Allie Burns series: ' McDermid is at her considerable best' GUARDIAN 'Irresistible' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'A brilliant novel by a supremo of the genre' PETER JAMES 'Outstanding' SPECTATOR 'Another masterpiece' DAVID BALDACCI 'Sensational. One of Britain's most accomplished writers' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'A masterly setter of scene' SCOTSMAN

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 1989. The world is on the brink of revolution and journalist Allie Burns is a woman on a mission. When she discovers a lead about the exploitation of society's most vulnerable, Allie is determined to investigate and give voice to the silenced. Elsewhere, a ticking clock begins the countdown to a murder. As Allie begins to connect the dots and edges closer to exposing the truth, it is more shocking than she ever imagined. There's nothing like a killer story, and to tell it, Allie must risk her freedom and her life . . . The brand-new unmissable, heart-stopping thriller from number one bestseller Val McDermid ___________ Praise for the Allie Burns series: ' McDermid is at her considerable best' GUARDIAN 'Irresistible' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'A brilliant novel by a supremo of the genre' PETER JAMES 'Outstanding' SPECTATOR 'Another masterpiece' DAVID BALDACCI 'Sensational. One of Britain's most accomplished writers' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'A masterly setter of scene' SCOTSMAN

1989. Verden er på randen af en revolution, og journalisten Allie Burns er tilbage. Ældre og måske lidt klogere, leder hun nu nyhedsafdelingen på The Sunday Globe i Glasgow. Hun er ikke længere graverjournalist, men nyhedsredaktør og stadig skrækslagen for at ende i rendestenen sammen med de brutale britiske tabloidmedier. Og hun får travlt. Året begynder med en mindegudstjeneste for ofrene fra Lockerbie-bombningen, og Allie har knap nok leveret den historie, før hun falder over en chokerende historie om aids-patienter. Den avisverden hun opererer i er under stærk forandring, og den kolde krig præger tiden. Da et mord sker, bliver Allie tvunget til at sætte spørgsmålstegn ved flere af sine gamle overbevisninger. 1989>/i>er anden bog i en planlagt serie på fem bind om Allie Burns. Vi følger hende fra 1979 og frem gennem fem årtier, på rejsen fra ung journalist til garvet ekspert, gennem mordsager og op- og nedture i karrieren, med Storbritanniens historie som medrivende bagtæppe. Allie Burns er baseret på Val McDermids egne erfaringer som ung journalist i 1970’ernes Glasgow.

The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that communist states had in fact long been shapers of an interconnecting world, with '1989' instead marking a choice by local elites about the form that globalisation should take. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the 1989 revolutions, this work draws on material from local archives to international institutions to explore the place of Eastern Europe in the emergence, since the 1970s, of a new world order that combined neoliberal economics and liberal democracy with increasingly bordered civilisational, racial and religious identities. An original and wide-ranging history, it explores the importance of the region's links to the West, East Asia, Africa, and Latin America in this global transformation, reclaiming the era's other visions such as socialist democracy or authoritarian modernisation which had been lost in triumphalist histories of market liberalism.

The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that communist states had in fact long been shapers of an interconnecting world, with '1989' instead marking a choice by local elites about the form that globalisation should take. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the 1989 revolutions, this work draws on material from local archives to international institutions to explore the place of Eastern Europe in the emergence, since the 1970s, of a new world order that combined neoliberal economics and liberal democracy with increasingly bordered civilisational, racial and religious identities. An original and wide-ranging history, it explores the importance of the region's links to the West, East Asia, Africa, and Latin America in this global transformation, reclaiming the era's other visions such as socialist democracy or authoritarian modernisation which had been lost in triumphalist histories of market liberalism.