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The Arrival
- Author
- Robin Brookes
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 14 May 2026
- Run Time
- 10 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
The rules are clear. Find out where you are. Try not to die.
Leo and Viv's weekend starts like any other: a takeaway, a movie and an early night. But when Leo wakes up, he's not in their London flat. He’s naked and alone in an unfamiliar bed, in an anonymous hotel, on the other side of the world.
Viv wakes up to a phone ringing. It's Leo and he claims to be in Australia, despite the impossibility of it. An emergency passport is arranged, a return flight to London booked. But before Leo can make it out, there's a flicker in the corner of his vision, and he wakes up in another bed, in another hotel room, in another country.
Disoriented, Leo soon discovers he's not alone. Someone with access to groundbreaking technology, and an axe to grind, is beaming a group of people around the globe – stalking them one by one, committing perfect, untraceable murders. As Leo fights to survive, Viv unearths dark secrets from her husband’s past. And the more she learns about Leo, the less she seems to know about him . . .
The Arrival is an unmissable world-hopping high-stakes thriller for fans of Dark Matter and Wrong Place, Wrong Time.
© Robin Brookes 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
Critics Review
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If you’re going to write a high-concept thriller, you might as well go all in… [The Arrival] ticks every box
The Times
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With spectacular twists, don’t start The Arrival if you have things to do because it stops you in your tracks. Google NOTHING. Just read it. Thank me later.
Alessandra Ranelli
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Details
- Author
- Robin Brookes
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 10 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 May 2026
- ISBN
- 9781529962505
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Technothriller, Thriller: serial killers, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives, Science fiction: near future, Adventure / action fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.The rules are clear. Find out where you are. Try not to die.Leo and Viv's weekend starts like any other: a takeaway, a movie and an early night. But when Leo wakes up, he's not in their London flat. He’s naked and alone in an unfamiliar bed, in an anonymous hotel, on the other side of the world.Viv wakes up to a phone ringing. It's Leo and he claims to be in Australia, despite the impossibility of it. An emergency passport is arranged, a return flight to London booked. But before Leo can make it out, there's a flicker in the corner of his vision, and he wakes up in another bed, in another hotel room, in another country.Disoriented, Leo soon discovers he's not alone. Someone with access to groundbreaking technology, and an axe to grind, is beaming a group of people around the globe – stalking them one by one, committing perfect, untraceable murders. As Leo fights to survive, Viv unearths dark secrets from her husband’s past. And the more she learns about Leo, the less she seems to know about him . . .The Arrival is an unmissable world-hopping high-stakes thriller for fans of Dark Matter and Wrong Place, Wrong Time.© Robin Brookes 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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