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Ordinary Thunderstorms
A chance encounter in London destroys climatologist Adam Kindred’s ordinary life. After finding a dying man and making one disastrous decision, Adam becomes the chief suspect in a murder and loses the documents, money and reputation that anchor him to respectable society. With both the police and a professional killer searching for him, he disappears into the city.
Living without his former identity, Adam moves along the Thames through shelters, estates, churches and hidden corners of metropolitan life. His attempt to discover why the murdered scientist was targeted leads toward pharmaceutical research, corporate ambition and the manipulation of evidence. The thriller becomes a study of how quickly social identity can vanish in a modern city built on records, money and institutional trust.
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