Richard Beard: Acts of the Assassins [2016] paperback Condition:New Booker longlisted author of the

Booker longlisted author of the number one bestseller

Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England

'One only needs to wade a few pages into this rich and absorbing work to see that perhaps we could do with a lot more characters like him dotted about this world

of the intersecting worlds of the sacred and profane

Richard Beard: Acts of the Assassins [2016] paperback Condition:New Booker longlisted author of theSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE A charismatic cult leader is dead. One by one his followers are being assassinated. Enter Gallio. Gallio does counter insurgency. But the theft of a body he's supposed to be guarding ruins his career. Years later, the file is reopened when a second body appears. Gallio is called back by headquarters and ordered to track down everyone involved the first time round. The only problem is they keep dying, in ever more