Book description
Joe has been acting strangely lately. He's been causing serious
trouble, and messing up his friends' lives. But they can't tell anyone.
Not even each other. You see, no one would believe them.
Everyone looks up to Joe...until he mysteriously disappears. Distraught,
his sister Debs pleads with his friends to look for him. Reluctantly,
they head for the obvious place - the marsh where they played as kids.
But they are not kids anymore, and without Joe they're leaderless. How
will they even find him? And do they want to, after what he's done? In
fact, they would be quite happy if Joe stayed missing for good...
Anthony Masters is the author of eleven works of adult fiction -
notably, Conquering Heroes (1969), Red Ice (1986, with Nicholas Barker),
The Men (1997), The Good and Faithful Servant (1999) and Lifers (2001) -
and, prior to his death, was in the process of completing another, Dark
Bridges, which he thought would be his best. Many of these works carry
deep insights into social problems, which he gained over four decades by
helping the socially excluded, be it by running soup kitchens for drug
addicts or by campaigning for the civic rights of gypsies and other
ethnic minorities. Masters is also known for his eclectic range of
non-fiction titles, ranging from the biographies of such diverse
personalities as Hannah Senesh (The Summer that Bled,1972), Mikhail
Bakunin (Bakunin: the Father of Anarchism, 1974), Nancy Astor (Nancy
Astor: A Life, 1981) and the British secret service chief immortalized
by Ian Fleming in his James Bond books (The Man Who Was M: the Life of
Maxwell Knight, 1984), to a history of the notorious Bedlam asylum
(Bedlam, 1977).
