Allen & Unwin Escape and Evasion book Fiction English Paperback 400 pages

'A ferociously smart, high-octane thriller about a rogue banker who plays Robin Hood and then runs for his life. Joseph Ashcroft is mad as hell and not going to take it any more and Escape and Evasion reads like a Network for the Bitcoin era. A big-hearted book about the rage for revenge, the bonds of friendship and the eternal pull of home.' - Tony Parsons

Escape and Evasion is the story of city banker Joseph Ashcroft.In the book's opening pages he steals $1.34 billion from his own bank, gives it untraceably to impoverished strangers worldwide, and flees.Why has he done this, and will he get away with it?An ex-soldier, Joseph discounts leaving the country in favour of hiding close by, first in the city, then in the woods near the home of his estranged family. He is hunted by Ben Lancaster, the bank's head of security and, as it happens, a former army friend. The two men share a violent, guilt-ridden past.Escape and Evasion is a tragicomic tale of escape and evasion. It is about buried secrets, the lengths a man will go to to win back those he loves, and the fallout from a monumental change of heart.

Christopher Wakling is a novelist and travel writer whose previous books include On Cape Three Points, The Undertow and Towards the Sun.Born in 1970, he was educated at Oxford, and has worked as a teacher and lawyer. He lives in Bristol with his wife and children.