Tigerman

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Lester Ferris, sergeant of the British Army, is a good man in need of a rest. He`s spent a lot of his life being shot at, & Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. He has no family, he`s nearly forty & burned out & about to be retired. The island of Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to serve out his time. It`s a former British colony in legal limbo, soon to be destroyed because of its very special version of toxic pollution
- a down-at-heel, mildly larcenous backwater. Of course, that also makes Mancreu perfect for shady business, hence the Black Fleet of illicit ships lurking in the bay: listening stations, offshore hospitals, money laundering operations, drug factories & deniable torture centres. None of which should be a problem, because Lester`s brief is to sit tight & turn a blind eye. But Lester Ferris has made a friend: a brilliant, Internet-addled street kid with a comicbook fixation who will need a home when the island dies
- who might, Lester hopes, become an adopted son. Now, as Mancreu`s small society tumbles into violence, the boy needs Lester to be more than just an observer. In the name of paternal love, Lester Ferris will do almost anything. & he`s a soldier with a knack for bad places: ”almost anything” could be a very great deal
- even becoming some sort of hero. But this is Mancreu, & everything here is upside down. Just exactly what sort of hero will the boy need?