What is the devastating effect on your life when, through no fault of your own, you lose everything — home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, money, credit cards, mobile phone — and you can never get them back? This is what happens to a young man called Adam Kindred, one May evening in Chelsea, London, when a freakish series of malign accidents and a split-second decision turns his life upside down for ever.

It seems that Boyd's intention is to create a mini 'thunderstorm' for the reader.  What starts out as a simple meeting in a quiet restaurant and which leads to Adam running away from a murder scene as the main suspect, although he is completely innocent seems rather rash.  But as the story unfolds and Adam realises that it is not only the Police who are after him, but the murderer himself, he must shy away from the public eye and become invisible.

A great novel, which takes the reader on a journey of 'Adam Kindered' finding himself in a World he knows nothing about and then having to find out how to be somebody else.  The plot is clever and thoughtful and gives the reader a detailed insight into a few varying different topics, including pharmacology, homelessness and private security companies.  Definitely a book worth reading.  

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