An exciting and lyrical new voice . . . one to watch.Mo Hayder author ofBirdmanBrookes an officer working clandestinely in Fascist Italy isbadly wounded while f... » 

An exciting and lyrical new voice . . . one to watch.Mo Hayder author ofBirdmanBrookes an officer working clandestinely in Fascist Italy isbadly wounded while fighting for the partisans. He regains consciousness onlyto find himself the guestor prisonerof the Baron of Castlemantia and hismysterious family in their hilltop castle. As winter locks them in and conflictescalates beyond their walls Brookes is drawn into the mystery that surroundshis hosts.At once a suspenseful period thriller and a gothic jeu despritin the vein of John Fowles Knight of Swords is a sensational debut. «