Bøger af Geoffrey Seed

A brilliantly artistic young girl goes missing in London and a journalist undergoing a personal and moral crisis, chances upon her aunt - his first great love. They resurrect their affair and seek to find out who kidnapped the child. The answer is hidden within a cabal of spies, arms dealers and corrupt politicians whose narcotic lust for power and profit rules all. The Convenience of Lies is a taut, slow-burn literary thriller set against actual events in the weeks after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990.

A penniless mother tries to sell two gilt-framed prints to an art dealer believing they are original paintings. But he is a police informer and the pictures were stolen during a suspected homicide when Hitler's bombers blitzed Manchester fifteen years earlier. The woman's innocent mistake triggers a cycle of death and vengeance down the decades and ultimately engulfs her brilliant son as he is about to retire as a judge. It is then, in the run-up to the 2015 British general election, that the secrets of his chaotic, working class family are used to blackmail him in a political conspiracy that will end in tragedy and murder.

"At sunrise on the day she would die, Ginny Hill flew fast and low along the border to save a spy with no name hiding from his enemies in a field of stones." When a British Army helicopter crashes in a lake in Wales, killing the female pilot, questions naturally arise. Was this terrorism? If so, who were the terrorists? And why did certain people never admit they had an agent on board - one they wished dead? All too soon, the law of unexpected consequences kicks in, and the pilot's death triggers the unravelling of five secret but interlinked lives, including that of her radical clergyman father. Moving at pace between Northern Ireland, Scandinavia, South Africa and South America, this Russian doll of a story builds to a brutal conclusion... but one with a wickedly unexpected twist in its tail.