Magnus Mills

J.G. Ballard Cocaine Nights 'Utterly compulsive. One is constantly being brought up short by the sheer strangeness of Ballard's imagination.' Sutiday Telegraph Five people die in an unexplained housefire in the Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, an exclusive enclave fór the rich, retired British,...

I Chapter One The Surprise, lying well out in the channel with Gibraltar half a mile away on her starboard quarter, lying at a single anchor with her head to the freshening north-west breeze, piped all hands at four bells in the afternoon watch; and at the cheerful sound her tender Ringle,...

Of course, if this had been any other country The Scheme would still be going today. In any other country it would have been regarded as a national treasure. Planned to the finest detail by people of vision, The Scheme was watertight, and could not possibly go wrong. Except in this country.' ...