"Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did." - Times Literary Supplement "He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural "[A] stylish, genuinely chilling author ... undoubtedly one of England"s best practicing novelists in the tradition of the thriller novel." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers Bill Easter is a petty criminal with a little problem of a ?2000 overdraft that he has no means of covering. Fortunately, the bank manager has a problem of his own and needs Bill"s help: the corpse of Henry Oliver, a very hairy 350 lb. mass murderer known as the "Mad Vicar," is decomposing in his basement and he wants it removed. Among Oliver"s papers, Bill finds a tantalizing reference to treasure that leads him to the Scottish isle of Rhona, where he meets the intrepid General Charles Kirk of British Foreign Intelligence...