Book description
Scott and Usher both need money, and they need it badly. One to save
his farm, the other his future. Usher is an experienced criminal and
housebreaker, but Scott is a rookie - he's desperate for cash, but
petrified of the implications that his actions might have.
To make enough money for their purposes, the pair must commit at least
two burglaries - but when things go wrong they discover themselves
capable of a degree of violence and level of treachery that lead to a
climax of nightmarish proportions. Donald MacKenzie was born in
Ontario, Canada, and educated in England, Canada and Switzerland. For
twenty-five years MacKenzie lived by crime in many countries. 'I went to
jail,' he wrote, 'if not with depressing regularity, too often for my
liking.' His last sentences were five years in the United States and
three years in England, running consecutively. He began writing and
selling stories when in American jail. 'I try to do exactly as I like as
often as possible and I don't think I'm either psychopathic, a wayward
boy, a problem of our time, a charming rogue. Or ever was.'
He had a wife, Estrela, and a daughter, and they divided their time
between England, Portugal, Spain and Austria.
