Bøker av Chris Bradbury

'Only by living on his terms could he die a satisfactory death, for even death had to have a meaning, as much as life, for birth and death were the beginning and end of the sentence and one had to fill that sentence with meaningful words. If one did not, then that death, that apex, would mean nothing and it had to mean everything. If it did not, if death meant nothing, if it was merely the cessation of breath, the stilling of the heart, then it was wasted. One could waste death no more than one could waste life. Only by a good death, a contented death, could one know that one had lived a good life, a life fulfilled. Of course, he was still searching.'So Christian Tassin decides to find the only thing that would give his life meaning - a good death.

1976 Successful novelist Mike Ward has had enough of England and decides to live abroad for a couple of years - to sever himself from his troubles and to write a new book. Yet when he gets to his chosen paradise in the middle of the Indian Ocean, he finds himself drawn into a web of deceit and into the arms of the beautiful Rose Trelawney. His instincts, built up after years spent in journalism, leave him unable to stop himself digging into the affairs that haunt the High Commissioner and his wife. As he searches, he is thrust into the heart of a Communist uprising, the seeds of which lay in the dark past of the High Commissioner himself.Against his better judgment, Ward is sucked into the dangerous worlds of love and politics and the question becomes not just one of survival, but a fight to remain sane in a world of madness.