The Fear IndexBased in Geneva, he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars, it is a system that thrives on panic and feeds on fear. And then, in the early hours of one morning, while he lies asleep, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts with increasing desperation to discover

Wells agrees but what he finds when he gets there is more than a station in disarray

raised a Viking and now married to a Saxon

as the media turns scandal into history revised

an American newspaper reporter

But does he want it enough to kill for it

Yemaya of the ocean

colour and blazing sunlight of a world he had imagined since childhood

But to discover the truth

landscape-maker

The Drink and Dream Teahouse maps out the contours of human drama in a work which seduces with its laughter even while it devastates with its tragedy and sorrow

The country is consumed by bloodshed

an architect in his late forties