AnthemAnthem: In 1952, in London's last great fog, a small boy, Henry Armstrong, is separated from his mother. Thirty years later, as a bandsman in the Royal Marines and bound for the Falklands, he still has not found her. Meanwhile, the life of Henry's childhood friend, shoe salesman Richard Roach, is in crisis. He is missing all of his targets; his feckless and impotent teenage son despises him; and his wife, Ellen, no longer bothers to mask her

his fifteen-year-old daughter

another police officer

blues historian from Tulane University

"Pure Dead Magic" includes kidnapping

She made a mixed marriage and her husband Amajit's family makes no secret of their pleasure at her death

to the core of human nature and to the furthest ends of time itself

It's been over a decade since Robert Pendleton published his brilliant short story debut

Why making a friend may be the bravest and most terrifying thing she has ever done

Somewhere deep in the desert

and a brand new introduction by Len Deighton

From the author of the 2 million+ copy

#1 New York Timesbestselling author of The Ballad of Never After