Three months after returning to Engl&, Christopher Burton, receives a phone-call at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge that informs him of his son's suicide. But why on receiving this terrible news, does Burton immediately decide that he must leave his Italian wife of thirty years standing? Why does he find it so difficult to focus on his grief for his son? Intensely dramatic, dark &, against all odds, hilariously funny, DESTINY is a satisfying story & a profound meditation on marriage & identity. Parks gives us a frightening experience of what it means to tread the narrow line between sanity & psychosis. ...

Soem three months after returning to Engl&, & having at last completed that collection of material that, once assembled in a book, must serve to transform a respectable career into a monument -something so comprehensive & final, this was my plan, as to be utterly irreftuable
- I received, while standing as chance would have it at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge, the phonecal that informed me of my son's suicide. Thus the opening sentence of Tim Park's tenth novel. But why, on receiving this terrible news, does Christopher Burton immediately decide that he must leave his Italian wife of almost thirty years standing? Why does he find it so difficult to focus on his grief for his son? Burton feels his pious, raffish & mercurial wife gave him his life in Italy & his career as the foremost journalist on Italian affairs. But surely she ia also the person who has made life impossible for him. Was their son somehow a victim of their explosive love & hate? Or is that thought simply the expression of a deep paranoia?
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Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his brain. He is discovered by his anxious niece, Mavis, who is just one of the tne people in the village in the running for chief suspect, having just cause to dislike Warrenby intensely. Only Chief Inspector Hemingway can uncover which of the ten has turned hatred into murder. ...

Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his brain. He is discovered by his anxious niece, Mavis, who is just one of the tne people in the village in the running for chief suspect, having just cause to dislike Warrenby intensely. Only Chief Inspector Hemingway can uncover which of the ten has turned hatred into murder. ...

Antonio Martens was a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. Now in prison, he requests & is given writing materials in his cell, & what he has to recount is his involvement in the surveillance, torture, & assassination of Federigo & Enrique Salinas, a prominent father & son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Preying upon young Enrique ...

As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war & injustice from the victims' point of view, sympathising with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality.

Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests & is given writing materials in his cell, & what he has to recount is his involvement in the surveillance, torture, & assassination of Federigo & Enrique Salinas, a prominent father & son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Preying upon young Enrique

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A devastating analysis of America's political actions (as opposed to its rhetoric) before, during & after the Cold War. Using secret National Security Council planning documents & taking post-war Europe & Central America as paradigms, the author examines America's aggressive colonialist policy. It draws alarming connections between its repression of information inside the U.S. & its aggressive empire-building abroad. ...