Robert Wilson
ROBERT WILSON is the author of nine previous novels, including A Small Death in Lisbon and The Company of Strangers. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising, and trading in Africa, and has lived in Greece and West Africa.
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ROBERT WILSON is the author of nine previous novels, including A Small Death in Lisbon and The Company of Strangers. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising, and trading in Africa, and has lived in Greece and West Africa.
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Blackmail, diamonds, a kidnapping, and the Liberian Civil War all mix together in this complexly plotted though enjoyable suspense tale set in West Africa.
A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson delves back into a Nazi past to link with a present day murder. I knew nothing about Portuguese history in the 2nd half of the 20th century before I began this book, and I learnt a lot. I also learnt what wolfram is! If as a reader you are a little nervous ...
My first Bruce Medway novel.It follows the queasy moral sense and impeccable scene-setting of such notable predecessors as Graham Greene and Eric Ambler.Wilson continues to confound expectations, and strenuously resists categorization in any easy fashion. The setting in this book is much different t...
“Capital Punishment” is a remarkable book by a writer that can write and that will drill holes in your central nervous system.It’s not that the story is terrifying – it’s not whatsoever. It’s just that it is too real not to call forth the indefinite doubts we all try to ignore about our own sanity.I...
I confess to not enjoying this as much as I hoped, but I don't think that is the fault of the writer. It is a tightly woven detective story, in which the investigating officer learns as much about himself and his past as he does the killer, given that his late father is mixed up in the events that h...
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