The Fountain in the Forest
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When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a theatre Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. Who is this anonymous corpse and why has he been ritually mutilated? But as Rex explores the crime scene further the mystery deepens and he finds himself confronting his own secret history instead. Who more importantly is Rex King? Shifting between Holborn Police Station an abandoned village in rural 1980s France and Stonehenges Battle of the Beanfield The Fountain in the Forest transforms the traditional crime narrative into something dizzyingly unique. At once an avant-garde linguistic experiment thrilling police procedural philosophical meditation on liberty and counter-culture bildungsroman this is an iconoclastic novel of unparalleled ambition.
