Waiting for the End of the WorldWilliam Dougal is blackmailed into doing a job for his old adversary James Hanbury. All he has to do is keep an eye on Dr Vertag, the leader of a lunatic fringe survival group. But he has hardly started when the barman who tried to warn him off is murdered. Suddenly, Zelda appears from Dougal's murky past, just as suddenly she is kidnapped from his flat. His natural desire to rescue her plunges him into a maelstrom of criminal activities. The shadow

Five hundred years later

The Spook Who Spoke Again

for all their determination and skill

cry and smile

has returned from the city and fallen in love precipitating a clash of the generations and reviving long-buried memories

and at the heart of the scrum - one of sport's most destructive

that of a missing girl who had worked in the mall

Blaney could be next

which turns out to be a vacant lot

In an age in which what goes up need not necessarily come down

When Edie Budd arrives at a shabby West London boarding house in October 1958

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