A Wild Sheep ChaseIt begins simply enough: A twenty something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance companys advertisement. What he doesn't realise is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins

when he learns of the horrors of the bull fight

Three months later

Seven did not cry

Gordon Scott-Thompson

she had every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon

New Statesman

From the bestselling author

The Western Ocean 1942

'A beautifully written thriller with well-drawn characters and a twisting

Tom has heard it will be a sinister and menacing place but nothing could fully prepare him for what he finds there

including an unhelpful consul

and to Ada