Charlie Conti has just come into his inheritance, Young, rich and alone in the world, he leaves the echoing luxury of his Manhatten home and heads for Los Angeles. He throws wild parties and everyone comes, yet Charlei remains on the outside, an isolated figure. Then he meets Ray Celador: Ray has the eyes of a visionary and the rough, gnarled hands of a lumberjack. He deals in drugs, women and philosophy, and before long he's indispensible to Charlei: father-figure, teacher, friend. But he on the end, is Ray Celador? And who - when he finds himself stripped of his home, his money and his identity - is Charlie Conti? A thriller with a literary twist, this is a novel of imaginative power and authenticity which marks the debut of an exciting new talent. AUTHOR: Claus von Bohlen was born in London in 1977. Based in Brixton, he works as a writer, translator; documentary filmmaker and part-time police officer. His second novel Towards the Sun, will be published by Old Street in 2009.
