First edition. 8vo., 296 pp. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine.
Signed by Author to title-page. Scarce, so.
His sixteenth novel. The fates of three people – a Muslim student working on biological weapons, a young Israeli girl trapped in a temple's ruins, and a vanished ex-guru – in the lead up to 9/11.
Winner of the 1990 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for Hopeful Monsters. Son and heir of Sir Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists, Mosley wrote critically of his father in Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley and Family 1933–1980, which was turned into the 1998 Channel 4 TV series, Mosley.
"[A]n astonishing piece of work with the potential to shift the very way we view the world: surely a contender for the first great novel of the twenty-first century." –Martin Bright, The Observer