The Trade MissionDeliverance meets Heart of Darkness for the Generation X reader. Imagine your job is to translate for a pair of arrogant technology whizzkids on business in South America. Imagine you are accompanying them on a jaunty boat trip up the river Amazon. Imagine that late one night some foreign bandits steal onto the boat and kill the crew. Imagine that you and your charges are kidnapped at gun point. Would you give your life for theirs in the name of

crime in so much as it needs a label

And several dozen heavily armed guys with serious existential issues

high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts

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' Santa Montefiore'Wonderful storytelling

Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey

and then mysterious packages begin to arrive

Kim is about to meet her team for the first time

breakfast with the miraculous Singing Flower

is assassinated

Deer Lake is a small Minnesota town where people know their neighbours and crime is something that happens on the evening news

appearing in four newspapers