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"When Lindsay is in his stride he's up there with the best." THE MIRROR
From the author of the DI WESTPHALL series, and the award-winning, macabre Scottish comic noir THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON, comes this surrealist and magical tale of coffee, plane crashes, lost love and the Beatles.
A flight bound for Los Angeles crashes somewhere in the USA, killing everyone on board. Everyone, that is, except one man. As the plane goes down, James Kite inexplicably finds himself transported to a beach in the north of Scotland.
Grilled by American agents intent on establishing some connection between him and the downed plane, Kite finds himself incarcerated in a building where the notions of time and space are lost; yet, as the interrogation becomes ever stranger, he begins to realise that their interest in him goes far beyond, and much further back than the plane crash.
A surreal story that rips along with the page-turning pace of the very best thrillers, Lindsay's twelfth novel sees his writing take off in an extraordinary new direction, as Kite is thrown into a bizarre, Kafkaesque narrative. From Dubai to Glasgow, from Warsaw to Seattle, Kite inhabits a world haunted by the mysterious Jigsaw Man, a world of coffee and the Beatles, of love and obsession, and a world where only certain people can see the red door...
'An eccentric, blisteringly satirical voice." SUNDAY EXPRESS
Genre: Literary Fiction
From the author of the DI WESTPHALL series, and the award-winning, macabre Scottish comic noir THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON, comes this surrealist and magical tale of coffee, plane crashes, lost love and the Beatles.
A flight bound for Los Angeles crashes somewhere in the USA, killing everyone on board. Everyone, that is, except one man. As the plane goes down, James Kite inexplicably finds himself transported to a beach in the north of Scotland.
Grilled by American agents intent on establishing some connection between him and the downed plane, Kite finds himself incarcerated in a building where the notions of time and space are lost; yet, as the interrogation becomes ever stranger, he begins to realise that their interest in him goes far beyond, and much further back than the plane crash.
A surreal story that rips along with the page-turning pace of the very best thrillers, Lindsay's twelfth novel sees his writing take off in an extraordinary new direction, as Kite is thrown into a bizarre, Kafkaesque narrative. From Dubai to Glasgow, from Warsaw to Seattle, Kite inhabits a world haunted by the mysterious Jigsaw Man, a world of coffee and the Beatles, of love and obsession, and a world where only certain people can see the red door...
'An eccentric, blisteringly satirical voice." SUNDAY EXPRESS
Genre: Literary Fiction
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