Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong?

To this end

but western intelligence has other plans for him

What if our 24-hour day grew longer

Bodies abandoned

In a maximum security jail in Nevada

Perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale

it's a story of men who have been dazzled by surface splendour and wealth

the de Havilland Mosquito was the war-winning wonder that should never have existed: the aircraft the RAF didn't think it wanted then couldn't do without

They seek desperate refuge with the Maharajah of Sawadh

Tom has woken up to discover that his wife was on the plane and must break the news to their only son

drought-ridden

But the Aurobon they return to is vastly different from the one they left