That both books have been in the top 5 sellers on Amazon demonstrates just how off-the-mark publishers have been recently. Even celebrity memoirs aren’t selling as well and Dickens is languishing behind them too.
The Survival of Thomas Ford is a thriller that is at times extremely dark. John Logan manages to get inside the mind of a teenage psychopath with chilling reality. Thomas Ford loses his wife in a car crash caused by Jimmy and his friend Robert. Ford is the only survivor and spends months in hospital recovering. Despite his injuries he remembers, very clearly, the car and its occupants. The police find it hard to believe him and for a while both the police and his in-laws suspect that Ford may have caused the accident himself.
Jimmy’s girl-friend is a cleaner at the hospital. When he discovers that Thomas Ford is not only alive, but has given the police a description of him and his car, he decides that Ford must be removed.
The novel is very well written (crime fiction so often isn’t) and gripping all the way to the grisly end. If you enjoyed the Wasp Factory and Train Spotting, or even if (like me) you didn’t, you’ll like this.
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