Book description
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled
into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash
secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He
says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights
lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's
survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit
of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the
sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in
Hamburg. A triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a
sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations
converge upon the innocents. Poignant, compassionate, peopled with
characters the reader never wants to let go, A MOST WANTED MAN is alive
with humour, yet prickles with tension until the last heart-stopping
page. It is also a work of deep humanity, and uncommon relevance to our
times.
