Ned Beauman

Halyard, an Australian executive at a mining company and Karin Resaint, a Swiss environmental scientist—thrown together on a sea adventure to track down an very endangered yet horribly ugly fish, the Venomous Lumpsucker....

In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a huge Hollywood production on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues. Twenty years...

South London, May 2010: twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days looking after Rose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, and his nights at raves....