Power House Reverend Richard Coles and it falls to earth

and it falls to earth terribly injured

Since his debut in 1995 John Baker has been one of the most highly regarded of Britain's new wave of crime writers

But when they follow up a new lead

he cannot resist the adventure of helping a young woman escape imprisonment in a gaming house

Power House Reverend Richard Coles and it falls to earthVictor Demuth's efection to the East put a very embarrassing cat among the English political pigeons and was almost equally embarrassing to Colonel Russell's opposite number in Moscow. Harry Fletcher, the Prime Minister, was worried; very worried. He had called a snap election; if it were known that Demuth a rich, ultra left wing dilettante M. P. had defected, Fletcher would very soon have to change his address. And he knew it.