JUSTIN KERR-SMILEY
The year is 1798. David Stoddart lives in Edinburgh and is a respected town councillor by day and a thief by night. After dark he prowls the streets robbing houses. Although he fights against his passions he is drawn back to the underworld like a moth to a flame.
Addicted to gambling Stoddart forms a gang to increase his takings, but one night a raid goes badly wrong and he must flee for his life. He is pursued by furies who demand their pound of flesh and will not be denied…
A Leap In The Dark shows how we are often caught on the horns of a dilemma; between good and evil, darkness and light. As Robert Louis Stevenson said: ‘Man is not truly one, but truly two.’
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A Leap in the Dark
By Justin Kerr-Smiley
GOODBYE TO THE PRESIDENT ... 'Justin Kerr-Smiley's second novel is a powerful chronicle of a crucial moment in recent Latin American history. It's also a great read.'
Aamer Hussein, Author of 'The Cloud Messenger'
GOODBYE TO THE PRESIDENT ... 'It truly is an extraordinary story and told in a masterful way by Kerr-Smiley.
I urge everyone to read it.'
A. J. W. Hayward, Amazon Books Reviewer
UNDER THE SUN ... 'It is a small masterpiece; the best novel that I have read about war since Captain Corelli's Mandolin.'
The Sunday Telegraph
UNDER THE SUN ... 'It is an accomplished literary war novel ... Kerr-Smiley's passionate tale should convince readers that remarkable, as well as horrific, things can happen in the midst of war.'
Publishers Weekly
