Armadillo

One winter’s morning, Lorimer Black – young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression – goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. A bad start to the day, by any standards, and an ominous portent. Sure enough, Lorimer’s life is duly turned upside down and inside out in ways he could never have foreseen.

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‘As entertaining and as thought-provoking as anything Boyd has ever written’   Daily Telegraph 

‘Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner’
Andrew Motion, Observer 

‘Armadillo doesn’t miss a trick. It has depth and resonance which will make you want to read it again … zinging readability’    Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday

‘A joy to read: east to get into, addictively plotted and beautifully written’    James Delingpole, Daily Mail 

‘As entertaining as anything he has written … brisk farce and dialogue that can be finger-licking good’    David Profumo, Spectator