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The Long Shadow
Mark Mills
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Ben Makepeace has barely thought of Jacob since school. What he remembers is a competitive, manipulative boy, impinging on his life like a cuckoo planted in a nest.
Now Ben is the wrong side of forty with a young son to support and in need of a backer to bankroll his latest film script. A call to meet hedge-fund billionaire Victor Sheldon is promising, but there's a surprise in store - Victor is Jacob, now firmly entrenched in a gilded world of riches and glamour.
History can cast a long shadow and while Ben believes his childhood is well over, he soon discovers the roots of the past dig deep, and some can't let it go.
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Praise for The Long Shadow
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A writer of real psychological acuity - his most richly textured work yet - IndependentA clever, teasy hybrid of genres and fraught with tensions about money, class and the super-rich. A taut, gripping psychodrama and a wonderful, twisted take on the 'wild divergences' of contemporary Britain - The SpectatorAn elegantly written and irresistible thriller - Mail on SundayI really enjoyed this book... The plot is excellent and as a reader we're not sure what is genuine and what is sabotage until near the end - NewBooks MagazineA sure grasp of character...An enthralling mystery, not least because the author's gift for an elegantly turned sentence is fully and generously in evidence - Express
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