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The Sandpit

`A remarkable contemporary thriller… A triumph` WILLIAM BOYDA journalist becomes embroiled in a world of secrets and paranoia when a nuclear scientist goes missing.When John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son, Leandro, he expects a quiet life. His time living on the edge as a foreign correspondent is over.But these rainy streets turn out to be just as treacherous as those he used to walk in Rio. Leandro`s schoolmates are the children of powerful people, and a chance conversation with another father, Iranian scientist Rustum Marvar, sets Dyer onto a truly dangerous path.Then Marvar disappears. Soon, sinister factions are circling, and become acutely interested in what Dyer knows about Marvar`s world-changing discovery…`An absorbing thriller with shades of John le Carre` Evening Standard`Exciting… A page-turner` Daily Telegraph