Killing the Messenger - Softcover

Christopher Wallace is communications director of a major public sector organisation and former managing director of a leading advertising agency employed on successive government advertising campaigns. His first novel, The Pied Piper's Poison (Flamingo, 1998), won wide acclaim and the Saltire First Book of the Year 1998. He is also the author of The Resurrection Club (Flamingo, 2000) and The Pirate (Flamingo, 2001) and lives in Edinburgh.

Praise for The Pied Piper's Poison: A grainy, honest attempt to probe those dark areas we give novelists sanction to investigate. Highly ambitious and stunningly successful.A" Independent Assured, ambitious... a fascinating first novelA" The Times Quite simply stunningA" Time Out Praise for The Resurrection Club a rich, complex and disturbing second novel - Full of showstopping scenes, this wicked piece of anti-PR for Edinburgh and its festival turns out to be as good at manipulating emotions as the characters within itA" Independent on Sunday Praise for The Pirate A rollicking adventure story in disguise, with a swashbuckling denoument worthy of the skull-and-crossbones on the front cover.A" Independent on Sunday Wallace's quiet confidence in his own writing alone would take him a long way in a face-value literary world hungry for bright young things, but his ability to unfurl a story - and to inhabit the past - mark him down as a stayer.A" Scotsman A tale of the nasty side of human nature at, at its finest.A" FHM