Leap in the Dark
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- ISBN 9781916556409
- Dimensions: 158 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2024
- Publisher: Chiselbury Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The year is 1798. David Stoddart lives in Edinburgh and is a respected town councillor by day and a thief by night. After dark he prowls the streets robbing houses. Although he fights against his passions he is drawn back to the underworld like a moth to a flame.
Addicted to gambling Stoddart forms a gang to increase his takings, but one night a raid goes badly wrong and he must flee for his life. He is pursued by furies who demand their pound of flesh and will not be denied…
A Leap In The Dark shows how we are often caught on the horns of a dilemma; between good and evil, darkness and light. As Robert Louis Stevenson said: ‘Man is not truly one, but truly two.’
Justin Kerr-Smiley was born in 1965 and raised in Scotland. He was educated at Newcastle University. Awarded a BBC bursary for post graduate studies in journalism, he worked as a radio reporter in Sydney and London. He then joined the Associated Press (APTN) and has reported from Northern Ireland, the Balkans, South America and the West Bank.
His first novel Under The Sun is published by Hachette. The Sunday Telegraph described it as: 'a small masterpiece; the best novel that I have read about war since Captain Corelli's Mandolin'.
In 2011 he received a travel scholarship from the Society of Authors to research Goodbye To The President: a novel about the 1973 coup in Chile, which was published in 2014. In 2022 Universe published Codename Edelweiss, a thriller about the search for Hitler's son.
He lives in London.
