Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd

By Eithne Farry  on Tuesday 1 September 2009

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Whip-crack smart, with a pace to match, Boyd ramps up the paranoia in this novel of identity and reinvention

Adam Kindred's life is in free fall. Having attended a job interview at a prestigious university, the young climatologist's life is ambushed by a series of unforeseeable events, which results in him becoming embroiled in the messy corruption of the pharmaceutical industry and being wanted for murder. With the police and a hit man on his tail, Adam has no choice but to live anonymously, sleeping rough at first and scavenging food from bins. Accidental encounters see him forging a series of new identities as a hospital porter, a blind beggar and a potential religious convert, as he struggles to survive in the hostile city as one of the countless 'disappeared' who exist on the very margins of society.

(£18.99, Bloomsbury)

Review by Eithne Farry

Release date: Tuesday 1 September 2009

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