β Scribed by William Boyd
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William Boyd is the author of nine novels, including A Good Man in Africa winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award An Ice Cream winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize Brazzaville Beach winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and Restless< winner of the Costa Novel of the Year.What is the devastating effect on your life when, through no fault of your own, you lose everything home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, money, credit cards, mobile phone and you can never get them back? This is what happens to a young man called Adam Kindred, one May evening in Chelsea, London, when a freakish series of malign accidents and a split second decision turns his life upside down for ever. The police are searching for him. There is a reward for his capture. A hired killer is stalking him. He is alone and anonymous in the huge, pitiless modern city. Adam has nowhere to go but down underground. He decides to join...
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