The bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN returns with a Buchan-esque thriller.’Torday has an extraordinary gift for making apparent "normality" look sinister and strange’ THE TIMES’Funny, ambitious, multi-layered and quirkily imaginative’ SCOTSMAN’A thrilling read’ PRIMA’Written with confidence and dry humour, it’s engaging and funny’ BIG ISSUE’Gripping’ NEWS OF THE WORLDTraumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Richard Gaunt returns home to his girlfriend with very little of a plan in mind. Finding it difficult to settle into civilian life, he turns to drink and gambling – and is challenged to a bet he cannot resist. All he has to do is walk from London to Oxford in under twelve hours. But what starts as a harmless venture turns into something altogether different when Richard recklessly accepts an unusual request from a stranger …
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