EAN: 9781787301771

THE SANDPIT - NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE KARTONIERT (TB)

'A remarkable contemporary thriller - with shades of Graham Greene and Le Carré about it - but
also a profound and compelling investigation of a hugely complex human predicament. Brilliantly
observed  captivatingly written  grippingly narrated - a triumph' William BoydWhen John Dyer
returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son  he doesn't expect to find them both in
danger. Every day is the same. He drops Leandro at his smart prep school and walks to the
library to research his new book. His time living on the edge as a foreign correspondent in Rio
is over.But the rainy streets of this English city turn out to be just as treacherous as those
he used to walk in the favelas. Leandro's schoolmates are the children of influential people 
among them an international banker  a Russian oligarch  an American CIA operative and a British
spook. As they congregate round the sports field for the weekly football matches  the network
of alliances and covert interests that spreads between these power brokers soon becomes clear
to Dyer . But it is a chance conversation with an Iranian nuclear scientist  Rustum Marvar 
father of a friend of Leandro  that sets him onto a truly precarious path.When Marvar and his
son disappear  several sinister factions seem acutely interested in Marvar's groundbreaking
research at the Physics Faculty  and what he might have told Dyer about it  given Dyer was the
last person to see Marvar alive.

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