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The Incident

Kenneth Macleod

Three lives, three turning points: this stunning debut novel charts those moments that change the course of a life for ever.

'Certainly there are ghosts in these towers. For me they are the ghosts of two children. And even now - ten years later and seven hundred miles away - I still wake most nights with the muffled echo of their cries in my ears and the weight of their deaths on my conscience...'

Three lives; three turning points. Craig was a teenage lifeguard on a beach in Germany when two children died on his watch. It should never have happened. He was an expert swimmer. His grandfather, Gordon McInnes, was on board a ship torpedoed during the war. He survived by clinging to the body of one of his colleagues. Years later, he met a member of the crew of the U-boat that attacked his ship. Gerd is a refugee of the Cold War. Recruited by the Stasi at a very young age, he escaped to the west after his mission went terribly wrong. He never went back.

THE INCIDENT is a searingly powerful novel about fate, about those moments that change the course of a life for ever. It is also a book about history, from the Second World War through to the current day, and the way incidents long past can reverberate across generations.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : APR 4, 2013
  • Imprint : Phoenix
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781780221045
  • Price : INR 575
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Kenneth Macleod

Kenneth Macleod was born in Glasgow in 1972. He began working as a newspaper reporter at the age of 17 then worked in the Scottish media for 12 years before completing a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He divides his time between Glasgow and Berlin where he works as a tour guide. THE INCIDENT is his first novel.

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