The PretenderWolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition 'A vivid, transporting feat of imagination' Maggie Shipstead 'Witty, poignant, wildly engaging, and with a huge heart I loved it' Sarah Waters 'Brilliantly buoyant, clever, funny, original, vivid, witty' Joanna Quinn 'The Pretender has everything: history richly drawn, amazing characterisation, humour,

But soon after his arrival

and it slowly dawns on her that she was in fact the real target of the attack

but Charlie Doig has just seized twenty-eight tonnes of Lenin's gold

Tom Killgannon

but they will not always lead

A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains

which confirms his mastery of thriller writing and explores new - and terrifying - territory against the dramatic backdrop of the Amazonian jungle

was accused of being a serial killer

The screenwriter

Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death

The novel features various generations over the course of 150 years in interconnecting stories

though he behaved - especially in the matter of the infernal machine in Mount Street - rather suspiciously at times