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The Sandpit (Paperback)
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The Sandpit (Paperback)
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'A remarkable contemporary thriller - with shades of Graham Greene
and Le Carre about it - but also a profound and compelling
investigation of a hugely complex human predicament. Brilliantly
observed, captivatingly written, grippingly narrated - a triumph'
William Boyd When John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his
young son, he doesn't expect to find them both in danger. Every day
is the same. He drops Leandro at his smart prep school and walks to
the library to research his new book. His time living on the edge
as a foreign correspondent in Rio is over. But the rainy streets of
this English city turn out to be just as treacherous as those he
used to walk in the favelas. Leandro's schoolmates are the children
of influential people, among them an international banker, a
Russian oligarch, an American CIA operative and a British spook. As
they congregate round the sports field for the weekly football
matches, the network of alliances and covert interests that spreads
between these power brokers soon becomes clear to Dyer,. But it is
a chance conversation with an Iranian nuclear scientist, Rustum
Marvar, father of a friend of Leandro, that sets him onto a truly
precarious path. When Marvar and his son disappear, several
sinister factions seem acutely interested in Marvar's
groundbreaking research at the Physics Faculty, and what he might
have told Dyer about it, given Dyer was the last person to see
Marvar alive.
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