The author of The Blood Lance and The Painted Messiah demonstrates his versatility with this dark,stylish noir thriller set on and around a Midwestern university campus. I turned thirty-seven that summer, older than Dante when he toured Hell, but only by a couple of years. Life couldn't be better for David Albo, an associate professor of English at a small midwestern university. He lives in an idyllic, out-of-town, plantation-style mansion with a beautiful and intelligent wife and an adoring teenage stepdaughter. As he returns to the university after a long and relaxing sabbatical, there is a full professorship in the offingand, what's more, he has managed to stay off the booze for two whole years. But, once term begins, things deteriorate rapidly. The damning evidence that he has sexually harassed his students is just the beginning as Dave finds himself sucked into a vortex of conspiracy, betrayal, jealousy, and murder. Unless he can discover quickly who is out to destroy him, all that he is and loves is about to be stripped away.	Central China, 1264. When Mongol armies storm into the Middle Kingdom, the descendents of Yun Cai (Taming Poison Dragons) are trapped in a desperate siege that will determine the fate of the Empire. Guang and Shih are identical twins, one a heroic soldier idolised by the city he defends, the other a humble doctor. In the midst of war, jealous conflicts over Shihs wife and concubine threaten to tear the brothers apart. Enemies close in on every side some disturbingly close to home. Can the Yun family survive imprisonment, ruthless treachery and Kublai Khans bloody hordes? Or will their own reckless passions destroy them first? Breaking Bamboo is the second instalment of a trilogy set in Song and Yuan Dynasty China, charting the trials and adventures of the Yun clan.
Craig Smith	Tim Murgatroyd
Published in original paperback in July. £7.99	Out in hardback in September. £16.99

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