Product details
- ISBN 9780753826874
- Weight: 222g
- Dimensions: 129 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 2011
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN returns with a Buchan-esque thriller.
'Torday has an extraordinary gift for making apparent "normality" look sinister and strange' THE TIMES
'Funny, ambitious, multi-layered and quirkily imaginative' SCOTSMAN
'A thrilling read' PRIMA
'Written with confidence and dry humour, it's engaging and funny' BIG ISSUE
'Gripping' NEWS OF THE WORLD
Traumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Richard Gaunt returns home to his girlfriend with very little of a plan in mind. Finding it difficult to settle into civilian life, he turns to drink and gambling - and is challenged to a bet he cannot resist. All he has to do is walk from London to Oxford in under twelve hours.
But what starts as a harmless venture turns into something altogether different when Richard recklessly accepts an unusual request from a stranger ...