Pawn's Gambit

This is an enthralling political thriller which was short-listed for the Political Fiction Prize of the Politics magazine. Starting from a seemingly inconsequential event, it escalates to embrace contemporary political events on an epic scale. Though a work of fiction, the author's detao;ed research into this world, the institutions and the places involved, give a startling authenticity to the take which emerges.

     Kat Kimball, a publisher, returns from a business trip in California to find that her partner, Paul Emmerson, an Engineering Professor at Oxford University has mysteriously diappeared. The police, at first helpful, become increasingly and inexplicably obstructive; until Kate realises that if she is to discover what really happened, she must carry out her own investigation. With only a minor clue to go on tgher task at first seem insurmountable.