Tom Winscombe is having a bad day. Trapped at the top of the tallest building in Minsk while a lethal battle between several mafia factions plays out beneath him, he contemplates the sequence of events that brought him here, starting with the botched raid on a secretive think tank and ending up in the middle of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

More importantly, he wonders how he's going to get out of this alive when the one person who can help is currently not speaking to him.

Join Tom and a cast of disreputable and downright dangerous characters in this witty thriller set in a murky world of murder, mystery and complex equations.

A witty, fast-paced thriller set in Belarus, with a dash of mathematics and a large dose of danger.

About the Author

Jonathan Pinnock is the author of the novel Mrs Darcy Versus the Aliens (Proxima, 2011), the short story collections Dot Dash (Salt, 2012) and Dip Flash (Cultured Llama, 2018), the bio-historico-musicological-memoir thing Take It Cool (Two Ravens Press, 2014) and the poetry collection Love and Loss and Other Important Stuff (Silhouette Press, 2017). He was born in Bedford and studied Mathematics at Clare College, Cambridge, before going on to pursue a moderately successful career in software development. He also has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. He is married with two slightly grown-up children and now lives in Somerset, where he should have moved to a long time ago.

Reviews

Praise for Jonathan Pinnock:

'Lovely stuff' Ian Rankin

'A series of humorous, riotous mathematical mysteries' David Nicholls

'He makes funny and self-deprecating company' The Herald

'Jonathan Pinnock writes compelling tales with a deliciously wicked glint in his eye' Ian Skillicorn, National Short Story Week

'Jonathan Pinnock is Roald Dahl's natural successor' Vanessa Gebbie

'Funny, clever, and sometimes brilliantly daft. A comedy that I am sure would have made Pythagoras, Archimedes and Douglas Adams all laugh out loud' Scott Pack on The Truth About Archie and Pye

Book Information
ISBN 9781788423038
Author Jonathan Pinnock
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Farrago
Publisher Duckworth Books