A Season in Exile: ‘Oliver Harris is an outstanding writer’ The Times (A Nick Belsey Novel) - Hardcover

Harris, Oliver

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 140871292X ISBN 13: 9781408712924

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2022

Synopsis

'Anti-hero Nick Belsey, a policeman so maverick as to make Rebus look like a jobsworth, has burnt his bridges and fled to Mexico in Harris's latest marvellous thriller' Telegraph, 50 Best Books of 2022

Praise for Oliver Harris:
'One of our finest thriller writers' Evening Standard

'Oliver Harris is always pure quality' Ian Rankin

Nick Belsey's on the run.

Touching down in Mexico City, he doesn't have much in the way of funds, but he has a new continent and surely that's enough to start afresh. But it's not as easy as that. An idyllic interlude in a coastal village is interrupted when men turn up who seem to know exactly who he is. And they have some very urgent questions.

DI Kirsty Craik had also hoped she'd left Nick Belsey behind her, in the wilder days of her career. When a five am call instructs her to track him down or she'll be dead by Christmas, it seems he's walked back into her life with characteristic commotion. Craik is forced to break the rules once more to find out what her former lover is up to.

She needs to save herself, and, just maybe, to save Belsey too.

About this title

About the Author

Oliver Harris was born in London but now lives in Manchester. He is the author of the Nick Belsey series of crime novels, plus two novels featuring MI6 officer Elliot Kane. He teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

From the Back Cover

What did he look like? Just some caballero heading home from work. No one even glanced at him. So this was exile, he thought, like a lucid dream. He could move through it. He could breathe in it, and it felt like being able to breathe underwater. What was the catch? Just keep going, stay out of trouble. He needed to switch vehicles, get some cash, that was all. The plates on the car were still tagged to his name, and while he couldn't imagine a trans-Atlantic manhunt leaping into effect anytime soon, it cramped his sense of freedom. There was no such thing as half escaping.

Praise for the Nick Belsey series

'[Belsey has] got to be London's coolest cop' - Daily Mail, praise for A Hollow Man
'Mazy, pacy London noir' - Ian Rankin, praise for The House of Fame

From the Inside Flap

Nick Belsey's on the run. Touching down in Mexico City, he doesn't have much in the way of funds, but he has a new continent and surely that's enough to start afresh. But it's not as easy as that. An idyllic interlude in a coastal village is interrupted when men turn up who seem to know exactly who he is. And they have some very urgent questions.

DI Kirsty Craik had also hoped she'd left Nick Belsey behind her, in the wilder days of her career. When a five am call instructs her to track him down or she'll be dead by Christmas, it seems he's walked back into her life with characteristic commotion. Craik is forced to break the rules once more to find out what her former lover is up to. She needs to save herself, and, just maybe, to save Belsey too.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140871292X
• ISBN 13: 9781408712924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336