Christopher Fowler

London is in the grip of an epidemic - across the city, people are dying in freak accidents, each body yielding strips of paper carrying indecipherable heiroglyphics. Aiming to clear his own name after being linked with the victims, Harry uncovers the most hostile takeover bid of all time.

“[Christopher] Fowler repeatedly challenges the reader to redraw the boundaries between innocence and malevolence, rationality and paranoia. His strength lies in the way he unveils the darker side of the ordinary.”—Guardian A geologist trapped in a town without water is lured into a desperate escape plan. A boy plans …