Book description
Lausanne, Switzerland.
In the cathedral tower lives a strange boy with a limp who talks
to the bells.
In a luxury penthouse lives a high-class prostitute who's in
mortal danger.
And in a low-rent hotel lives a private investigator who has no
idea how he got there.
Jay Harper finds himself in Switzerland on the trail of a missing
Olympic athlete. A hard drinker, he can barely remember how he got
home last night, let alone why he accepted this job. When he meets the
stunning but aloof Katherine in a hotel bar, he quickly realises that
he's not the only one in town who's for hire. She's a high-class
hooker who can't believe her luck. Which is about to change. For the worse.
In the meantime, Marc Rochat spends his time in the belfry talking
to the statues, his cat and the occasional ghost. His job is to watch
over Lausanne at night and to wait for the angel his mother told him
he'd one day have to save. When he sees Katherine, he thinks his
moment has come. Which indeed it has. But not in a good way...
Jon Steele was born in the American west and worked as an award
winning cameraman/editor for ITN for more than twenty years. He has
travelled and worked through seventy-eight countries across six
continents. War Junkie, his autobiography of a life behind the
camera in some of the worst places on earth, was published in 2002 by
Transworld and has become a cult classic of war reportage.
In 2003, while in Baghdad at the start of the Iraq war, he became
disillusioned with television news, put his camera on the ground and
quit. He hid out in a small village in the south of France, writing
and taking long walks in quiet places. He went back alone to Iraq in
2008 and lived for three months with an American combat unit,
recording their lives for the breakthrough documentary film, The
Baker Boys: Inside the Surge.
He currently lives in Switzerland with his Jordanian-born wife and
their two cats, Zeus and Zorro.
