The Sandpit Av Nicholas Shakespeare

<p><b>''A remarkable contemporary thriller... A triumph'' WILLIAM BOYD</b><br><br><b>A journalist becomes embroiled in a world of secrets and paranoia when a nuclear scientist goes missing.</b><br><br>When John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son, Leandro, he expects a quiet life. His time living on the edge as a foreign correspondent is over.<br><br>But these rainy streets turn out to be just as treacherous as those he used to walk in Rio. Leandro''s schoolmates are the children of powerful people, and a chance conversation with another father, Iranian scientist Rustum Marvar, sets Dyer onto a truly dangerous path.<br><br>Then Marvar disappears. Soon, sinister factions are circling, and become acutely interested in what Dyer knows about Marvar''s world-changing discovery...<br><br><b>''An absorbing thriller with shades of John le Carr¿ <i>Evening Standard</i></b><br><br><b>''Exciting... A page-turner'' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p>