The Billy Palmer Chronicles - Tapa blanda

Billy Palmer grew up in a sleepy rural village, but his dreams were always for something else, something beyond the world he knew. As a child, this desire for the unexplored got him into trouble, as a teenager it drove him to adventure, and as an adult it propels him across the Atlantic to the dazzling lights of Manhattan, where the excitement he's craved seems finally to come within his grasp, but at what price? Engaging, evocative, and flawlessly paced, "The Billy Palmer Chronicles" is a pitch-perfect tale of one man's search for the life he's imagined.

DEREK JOHNS has been a bookseller, editor and publisher and now works as a literary agent in London