Terry Stiastny is the author of two political thrillers. Acts of Omission won the Paddy Power Political Fiction book of the year award in 2015.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Lawrence Leith has retreated from his once-successful career in TV to a small village in the south of France to mourn the end of his marriage and the loss of his job. When his old colleague Martin Elliott arrives for a summer holiday, surrounded by his lovely family and new, influential friends, he seems to have everything that Lawrence lacks. Martin is convinced that Lawrence should get back in the game, even if that involves returning to Africa, where it once nearly ended for both of them. As Martin's carefully cultivated image begins to slip, Lawrence recovers his urge to find out the real story -- one which will force him to choose between his friend and his principles.
“A skilful prose stylist and a connoisseur of telling details...Stiastny writes locally but thinks globally, and the result is impressive”
ACTS OF OMISSION
Mark Lucas, an ambitious junior minister in the New Labour government, has a dilemma. A disk containing the names of British informants to the Stasi has ended up in the hands of the government. Now he faces resistance from the diplomatic service, who don't want him to return it to the Germans. Alex Rutherford, a young man working for the intelligence services, wakes up one morning with a hangover and the frightening memory that his computer is lost and, with it, the only copy of that disk. When the disk is delivered to the newspaper where journalist Anna Travers works, she finds herself unravelling not just a mystery, but many people's lives.
Acts of Omission was winner of the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year, 2015