Christopher Bradbury

The Devil Inside Christopher Bradbury

The polite, cultured, educated voice sent a chill through Ward. He recoiled at the sound of it, pushed back into his pillow like a man who had to get away from an approaching fire. He struggled to make sense of it all. 'What in God's name is going on?' 'Just the usual, Mike. A little bit of blackmail, a little bit of murder, a little bit of mayhem. Oh, and a bit of a coup d'état.' With the echo of the terrible events of Christmas and New Year '76 dying out, Mike Ward returns to his trusty 1965 Olympia typewriter to finish his latest book. Yet, with a seemingly random bombing and the murder of the Minister for Justice, the spectre of civil war once again rears its ugly head as, against his will, Ward is dragged by the ghosts of Christmas past into a more bitter, more vicious, more far-reaching conflict than anyone thought possible. The Devil Inside, the hard-hitting sequel to The High Commissioner's Wife, brings Mike Ward back into the heart of the action in a fast-paced Indian Ocean island thriller.