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'Dripping with ideas and impressive in its scope swept along by the thundering narrative tide' Observer
'A thriller of hide and seek among London's low life. Think John Buchan meets John le Carré' Tatler
One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back.
With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground, joining the ranks of the disappeared, struggling to understand how his life has unravelled so spectacularly. His journey of discovery will take him along the Thames from Chelsea to the sink estates of the East End. On the way he encounters aristocrats, priests, prostitutes and a policewoman - but will Adam ever find himself again?
'Thrilling, hilarious, intricately plotted and terrifically readable' Craig Raine, TLS Books of the Year
'Quite simply our best...
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Fülszöveg
'Dripping with ideas and impressive in its scope swept along by the thundering narrative tide' Observer
'A thriller of hide and seek among London's low life. Think John Buchan meets John le Carré' Tatler
One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back.
With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground, joining the ranks of the disappeared, struggling to understand how his life has unravelled so spectacularly. His journey of discovery will take him along the Thames from Chelsea to the sink estates of the East End. On the way he encounters aristocrats, priests, prostitutes and a policewoman - but will Adam ever find himself again?
'Thrilling, hilarious, intricately plotted and terrifically readable' Craig Raine, TLS Books of the Year
'Quite simply our best novelist's best book' Barry Humphries, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
'Highly entertaining and characteristically expert' Daily Telegraph
'A storm of a story London has never looked so threatening'
Daily Mirror
Cover design: David Mann Cover photographs: © Corbis
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