Mark Mills

A riveting and evocative tale of passion and murder, set on the French Riviera in the 1930s, from the No.1 bestselling author of The Savage Garden. France, 1935: At the poor man's end of the Riviera sits Le Rayol, a haven for artists, expatriates and refugees. Here, a world away from the rumblings of a continent heading towards war, Tom Nash has rebuilt his life after a turbulent career in the Secret Intelligence Service. His past, though, is less willing to leave him behind. When a midnight int ruder tries to kill him, Tom knows it is just a matter of time before another assassination attempt is made. Gathered at Le Rayol for the summer months are all those he holds most dear, including his beloved goddaughter Lucy. Reluctantly, Tom comes t o believe that one of them must have betrayed him. If he is to live, Tom must draw his enemy out, but at what cost to himself and the people he loves!?

Ben Makepeace, a screenwriter, is recently divorced with a young son to care for. When he's invited up to Stoneham Park in Oxfordshire to meet someone who wants to bankroll his latest script, he jumps at the chance. Victor Sheldon is a hedge fund billionaire - and turns out to be someone Ben last knew some twenty-five years ago at school. But history can cast a long shadow, and soon Ben finds himself caught up in a vicious endgame with roots buried deep in the past of his childhood.

Blood brothers or sworn enemies? You never forget what the fight was about...Ben Makepeace has barely thought of Jacob since school. What he remembers is a competitive, manipulative boy, impinging on his life like a cuckoo planted in a nest. Now Ben is the wrong side of forty with a young son to support and in need of a backer to bankroll his latest film script. A call to meet hedge-fund billionaire Victor Sheldon is promising, but there's a surprise in store - Victor is Jacob, now firmly entrenched in a gilded world of riches and glamour. History can cast a long shadow and while Ben believes his childhood is well over, he soon discovers the roots of the past dig deep, and some can't let it go.

VTIPNÝ ROMÁN O VYTVÁRANÍ PUTA MEDZI PSOM A JEHO MAJITEĽOM. Dan nie je padavka, ale ani agresívny snaživec. Rád jazdí pomaly, na mobile lúšti sudoku a nový sveter si kúpi až vtedy, keď obnosí ten starý. Už štyri roky žije s Clarou a je šťastný. Jedného dňa ho však Clara znenazdajky opustí, nechá mu len dlhý list plný obvinení a malého, bieleho, takmer bezsrstého psa menom Peso. A tak Dan, ktorý je už niekoľko týždňov bez práce, prichádza ešte aj o priateľku, a na krku mu ostane vzdorovitý pes, ktorého nikdy nechcel. Rozhodne sa, že mu nájde nový domov, ale každý vie, ako to väčšinou dopadne, keď má človek tie najlepšie úmysly. Navyše sa ukáže, že Peso je vskutku nezvyčajný štvornohý kamarát... a jedna veľká inšpirácia.

No-one ever called Dan a pushover. But then no-one ever called him fast-track either. He likes driving slowly, playing Sudoku on his iPhone, swapping one scruffy jumper for another. He's been with Clara for four years and he's been perfectly happy; but now she's left him, leaving nothing but a long letter filled with incriminations and a small, white, almost hairless dog, named Doggo. So now Dan is single, a man without any kind of partner whether working or in love. He's just one reluctant dog owner. Find a new home for him, that's the plan. Come on...everyone knows the old adage about the best laid plans and besides, Doggo is one special kind of a four legged friend...and an inspiration.