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Fifteen-year-old private schoolboy Harry Hughes has been exchanging messages on an internet chat-room site with someone he thinks is a boy of his own age, but is actually a middle-aged Arab, who is part of a gang operating out of a Middle-Eastern embassy in London. The police are aware of them, but they are operating with impunity because they have diplomatic immunity.Harry foils their plans and the police take the gang into custody. To bring about a successful prosecution, the police need to put Harry in the witness stand. Acknowledging that the abductions must be stopped, Harry’s parents agree to this. But when the Arab’s lawyers fail to get their clients released from custody, Eastern European thugs emerge from the woodwork and start to threaten and intimidate the family, leading to four people losing their lives.Harry, Malcolm Roscow’s third novel, is a gritty tale full of suspense and intrigue. This is an expertly crafted thriller which is informed by the classics of the genre but has its own, singular personality.

A crayfish party is being held on a private island in the Finnish archipelago in honor of Ray Dunhew, who is an important customer of the party's host and who is visiting Finland for the first time. Copious amounts of schnapps will be consumed and the host and his wife have solicited the help of Sophie, the attractive eighteen-year-old daughter of very good friends of theirs, to make sure the schnapps glass of each and every guest is topped up. All goes well until most of the crayfish have been consumed and Sophie is walking round the table filling up the glasses for the last time. As she stands beside Dunhew, filling up his glass, she freezes. She gives him a long hard look and then continues round the table filling up everyone else's glass. She then goes back into the kitchen and, with tears in her eyes, reports that Dunhew had just molested her. The morning before Dunhew is due to fly back to England, he goes missing.