The Sparrow Conundrum Author:Bill Kirton Winner of the 2011 Forward National Literature Award for Humor. — Chris Machin isn't his name, at least not to the bottom feeders in Aberdeen squabbling over North Sea oil and gas contracts. Chris has a code name, and when his garden explodes, The Sparrow takes flight, plunging everyone involved into chaos and violence. — A sociopathic cop and an ... more »interfering ex-girlfriend don't exactly make for clarity of thinking, not when the one fancies a bit of violence to add spice to an arrest. The ex adds other, more interesting, dimensions to Chris' already complicated life.
The bodies pile up--some whole, some in fragments--and two wrestlers join the fray. A road trip seems just the solution but then so do Inverness, a fishing trawler and a Russian factory ship as the players face ... The Sparrow Conundrum.« less