Ransom

From the bestselling author of The Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, Model Behaviour and How It Ended, now brought back into paperback, Ransom, Jay Mclnerney's novel of exile ... Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity lie could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the terror lie encountered earlier in his travels - a blur of violence and death at the Khyber Pass. Supporting himself by teaching English to eager Japanese businessmen, Ransom feels safe amongst his fellow expatriates. But soon Ransom is threatened by everything lie thought lie had left behind, in a sequence of bizarre events whose consequences lie cannot escape ...