Crows' parliament - Jack Curtis (First edition)

Simon Guerney plies a lonely trade. He specializes in the international rescue of kidnap victims; his unrecognized skills the last resort of the rich and the desperate.

At first the disappearance of David Paschini seems a straightforward abduction case and Guerney joins the boy’s anguished mother in New York to play out the usual waiting game. Once there, he begins to sense inconsistencies in the pattern of events – but it is not until the unknown kidnappers demand that he travel to London to await further instructions that Guerney realizes the game has turned and that suddenly he is prey not hunter.

For David Paschini is no ordinary teenager and this is no ordinary kidnapping. Through a series of haunting psychic dreams he reveals his whereabouts to Guerney – and in a desperate race against time and the combined resources of the American and British security forces, Guerney must uncover the identity of David’s captors and their terrifying reasons for holding him before he himself is murdered.

Startlingly original in its combination of power politics, the growing menace of kidnapping and the disturbing but very real world of extra-sensory powers, Crows' Parliament will take its place amongst such classics of the genre as Rogue Male and The Third Man. This is a sensational and chilling début from a major new British thriller writer.