Ordinary Thunderstorms
Author: William Boyd
One may evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a splitsecond decision, a young climatologist called Adam Kindred loses everything – home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, mobile phone – never to get them back.Adam has no choice. the police and a ruthless hit man are after him. so he goes underground, joining ranks of the disappeared that throng Lo….Read More
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