Book description
When ROB SAUNDERS witnesses a young Japanese student commit suicide, he
impulsively takes the folder she dropped as she threw herself under a
tube train. He finds himself taking souvenirs from a series of tragic or
threatening events, at the same time initiating an edgy affair with a
work colleague. His behaviour becomes increasingly obsessive. The lines
blur between witnessing, seeking out and initiating tragedy. Things
spiral out of control when he discovers a dead body while he's jogging
in the woods. Stylistically bold, technically accomplished, this
fast-paced page-turner explores the anxieties and survival strategies of
a post-9/11 world.
Roger Morris is a writer and advertising copywriter whose clients
have included Penguin Books and The Guardian. His short fiction has
been published in a number of mainstream, genre and literary
publications. One of his short stories, The Devil's Drum, appeared in
the Horror Anthology Darkness Rising and was subsequently made into an
opera performed by the Solaris Musical Theatre Company in the Purcell
Room on London's South Bank.
