The Destroyers

Ian Bledsoe is on the run, broke and humiliated, fleeing the emotional and financial fallout of his father's death.

His childhood friend Charlie - rich, exuberant and basking in life on the Greek island of Patmos - is his last hope. At first, Patmos is like a dream - sun-soaked days on Charlie's yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian's past - and Charlie readily offers the lifeline he desperately needs.

But, like Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath. When he vanishes leaving behind his murky business affairs, Ian finds himself caught in a terrifying labyrinth of deceits.

As boys, the pair played a game called Destroyers - a game, he now realises, they may never have stopped playing. Expansive, vivid and suspenseful, in the vein of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, The Destroyers is a mesmerising drama of power and fate, fathers and sons, self-invention and self-deception.