# Shear

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- Book: [Shear](https://www.bookquiver.com/timothy-parks/shear) ([Shear.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/timothy-parks/shear.md))
- Authors: [Timothy Parks](https://www.bookquiver.com/timothy-parks)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9957-259-6
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2011-11-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit, corruption, lust and tragedy in Tim Parks' mesmeric story of a man whose life will be shattered like the fatal fragment of stone that obsesses him.