White Blood

A meticulously researched act of reconstruction…The narrative, the dialogue and the intensity of Doig’s emotions drive the story to a savage climax that reads like a modern thriller. It is the best sort of historical novel – Honor Clerk * Spectator *
Highly entertaining… superbly handled – William Palmer * Independent *
Beautifully written, with baroque energy and style – Jessica Mann * Sunday Telegraph *
Moves at a cracking pace with plenty of atmosphere and sympathy * Daily Telegraph *
Fleming finds an unencumbered, historically penetrating language in which the simplest expository sentences can bring prose, story and setting into a crisp and evocative alignment – Sam Thompson * Guardian *
This is a tense, thrilling and at times darkly comic novel with a complex central character who… bursts off the page * Time Out *
An extremely wintry and hard hitting adventure story…this is a historical evocation at times as powerful as the account of pre-1914 Berlin that the late great Sybille Bedford gave us in A Legacy….. readers will surely welcome its author to the ranks of our greatest storytellers * Literary Review *
Virile, ruthless, adventurous * Independent *

James Fleming, the nephew of Ian Fleming, was born in London in 1944. He is the author of four previous novels: The Temple of Optimism, Thomas Gage, Cold Blood and Rising Blood. He writes in Scotland.

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