Following the success of Restless, this wonderful writer stays in the thriller genre. Climatologist Adam Kindred’s marriage is on the rocks when he comes to London for a job interview but, apart from that, he has everything to look forward to when an impromptu conversation in an Italian restaurant changes his life for ever. There, he falls in with fellow lone diner Philip Wang, a scientist, but when he calls round to his flat merely to deliver a left-behind file, Adam finds the man has been horribly murdered.
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Although the tale has its wildly implausible moments, it makes for a thoroughly entertaining read because the writer does not feel the need to slow his fast-paced prose with dull slabs of research – unlike fellow writer Sebastian Faulkes who released his similarly contemporary London-based book, A Week in December, at the same time – and he provides a fascinating and plausible insight into how easy it is to simply disappear in London. An excellent Christmas present – it will keep someone blissfully distracted through the festivities.
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