Lost Boys - Softcover

Miller, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408700883 ISBN 13: 9781408700884

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2008

Synopsis

After the oil company that employs Arthur Dashwood fails to protect him from a kidnap attempt in Baghdad, he returns to his traumatised family in London. But everything is not as it should be. Having quit the blistering heat and swimming pool luxury of Saudi Arabia for fear of terrorist attack, Arthur finds that danger is closer to home. Arthur's young son Timothy is struggling in the hostile terrain of his new public school. Bullied by other pupils and neglected by his preoccupied parents, he withdraws into a fantasy world, a hybrid of computer-generated guerrilla warzone and exotic dreams of his time in Saudi Arabia, a place where boys can fight and escape their teachers and families. As one middle-class boy from Timothy's school and then another disappears, so evidence emerges of an extreme and disturbing rejection of the adult world. And then it is Timothy's turn to disappear. Haunted by memories of post-Saddam Baghdad, Arthur embarks on a terrifying search for his son, one that will reveal his own complicity in the brutal consequences of Western power.

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

Review:

James Miller's Lost Boys remained in my mind long after I turned the last page. Subject matter is essential in fiction and Miller magnificently fulfills this requirement. He is a formidable writer (Beryl Bainbridge)

A powerful, entertaining and disturbing read. (Francis Gilbert, The Times)

Miller's prose is elegant and assured (Simon Baker, Literary Review)

Sleek and shocking, this is highly intelligent cultural criticism. (WBQ)

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1408700883
• ISBN 13: 9781408700884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288