The Vodi"A valid and important human situation . . . The book is vivid with the characteristic Braine sights and smells." Kenneth Allsop, Daily Mail "Triumphantly underlines the point that Room at the Top was no flash in the pan. He alone, of the generation that has achieved celebrity in the last five years, is a genuine novelist in the great tradition." Yorkshire Post "A gifted and skilled writer . . . His prose is at its best extremely vivid." Richard

social-media thriller from the bestselling author of The Black Path

head of Stafford Security Consultants

one of fiction's truly great adventurers

On the furthest ridge behind them

he was thrown into disgrace after the sudden disappearance of his partner

Americans and Poles

Forced to live apart

Or could it be just the escape she needs right now

long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village

Doripalam's wife is facing her own challenges and finds herself entangled with murder and with the fugitive officer

his body threatens to betray him

1964: A US diplomat caught in a clandestine love affair as the Cold War rages