Gabriel - Paul Cartmell

For Wolf Devenish, reaching forty is no reason to start taking life seriously. Scraping a living reporting for provincial newspapers in Oxford, England, his idea of a crisis is running out of beer or screwing up yet another relationship. When Mr Gabriel, a frightening and impulsive ex-CIA agent, tells him he has a grown-up son he knew nothing about, Wolf is catapulted into a world of lost lovers, secret weapons and callous killers. Forced to finally take responsibility for the sins of his past, Wolf must travel to the States to reunite the family he never knew, while Gabriel's settling of scores with his former masters threatens to unravel all of their lives. With great characters, a rich vein of humour, and a sassy, sexy storyline, Gabriel is a quirky modern thriller which grabs the reader by the funny bone and drags them along, as the increasingly erratic Mr Gabriel throws the everyday lives of everyone he touches into disarray - from the first page to the shocking climax in the wilderness of Salisbury plain.