Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Someone else who loves maps as much as we do….maybe perhaps too much though.
Trust Your Eyes
What you need to know before your trail
Map-obsessed Thomas spends his days and nights on a virtual tour of the world through his computer screen. Every house he sees, every street he travels down, he takes in every detail slowly and carefully. But these maps often reveal things captured in the moment, unexpected and momentary. But when Thomas sees a woman being murdered through a New York window, he knows that no -one is going to believe him. He’s different to other people anyway and this certainly isn’t going to help.
Thomas does tells his brother Ray, however what he has witnessed and Ray humours him with a half-hearted investigation. However, he soon realises that Thomas may have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy, which puts them both in danger . . .
Travel Guide
A bird’s eye view of New York and most of the USA – Explore New York with a virtual walking tour!
When a schizophrenic man believe that he’s been recruited by the CIA to remember the names of every street, he spends days and nights at his computer screen. This is not Google Maps but something all the more futuristic and weird) and you can see everything and anything even a murder.
The building blocks of the city were his primary concern – its architecture, its layout, its infrastructure – he paid little attention to the people he came across hi his travels.
The city is his playground and the grid like streets above 14th street are a lot easier to navigate than the chaotic streets below it.
Orchard street – not a beautiful street in the traditional sense he said but interesting as it’s both steeped in texture and history. It’s narrow, with old brick tenement buildings there dating back half a century. He always found as well that you get the best sense of the place by walking in the middle of the road then swinging around to see where you’d been.
Streetview Maps
C) NYC - 14th Street
C) NYC - Broome and Orchard
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Trust Your Eyes
Author/ Guide: Linwood Barclay Destination: New York Departure Time : 2000s
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