The ministry of fear

For Arthur Rowe the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the Blitz and the guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the War, until he happened to win a cake at the fete. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quarry of malign and shadowy forces, from which he endeavors to escape ...

220 pages | Published 2001