Book description
It touches all our lives; our triumphs and tragedies, our proudest
achievements, our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love and fear,
death and fire and the inscrutable acts of the gods, insurance is indeed
the force that binds the universe together. Hardly surprising,
therefore, that Frank Carpenter, one of the foremost magical
practitioners of our age, felt himself irresistibly drawn to it. Until,
that is, he met Jane, a high-flying corporate heroine with an annoying
habit of falling out of trees and getting killed. Repeatedly. It's not
long before Frank and Jane find themselves face to face with the
greatest enigma of our times: When is a door not a door? When it's a
mousetrap. Tom Holt's first book was published when he was just
thirteen and, to his horror, he was hailed as an infant prodigy. While
studying at Oxford however he discovered Bar Billiards and turned from
poetry to comic fiction.
