The Trees Bodley Head Gordon Scott-Thompson

Gordon Scott-Thompson

about an old unsolved murder

When the car of eminent sociologist Sir John Drewson is stolen from an airport car park

The island has a live volcano and

The Trees Bodley Head Gordon Scott-ThompsonThere came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins. There is no warning. No chance to prepare. They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies,