An epic and hauntingly topical geopolitical thriller spanning six decades and three continents, The Human Pool confirms the journalist and award-winning filmmaker Chris Petit as the heir to John le Carre and Robert Harris.

THE HUMAN POOL

Rumors about Willi Schmidt's actions during the Second World War were enigmatic, to say the least. He worked for U.S. Intelligence out of Switzerland; he cut black-market deals on the side; he rescued scores of Jews from the Nazis. Saint or sinner? Either way, Schmidt was strictly murky waters -- and reports of his death in 1945 surprised no...

""Brother Death" is perhaps John Lodwick's most original and ambitious thriller, combining the moral questioning of Graham Greene with the edge-of-your-seat suspense of Geoffrey Household or Hitchcock." - Michael Moorcock
"Mr. Lodwick writes with great accomplishment, softening his brutalities with a sardonic humour." - Lionel Hale, "Observer"
"Mr. Lodwick is a clever writer who goes all out to be tough. It should gratify him to hear that this reviewer thinks "Brother Death" a perfectly horrid book, for he can hardly have meant it to be anything else.... there is no denying that Mr....