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Martin Russell spends his last £2 coin on a bus ride out of the city with barely enough motivation to face the future. Then a chance incident near his home triggers a sequence of positive opportunities for him. His life, unexpectedly, could not be better.
That is, until the phone call informing him his friend Hannah has disappeared, and people's lives will now change forever.
And who can be trusted? Certainly not the obsessive Nash, or the slimy underworld figure they call The Chemist.
How about John Staples, better known as Pin-up? Is his renewed friendship with Martin genuine or suspicious?
What's going on with Zachary and Bobby? One's a schoolboy drug dealer, the other is a disgraced ex-copper. What could they possibly have in common?
Why are their intertwined stories entitled A Face Not Seen? For the answer to that question, you would have to ask Xenon. But that's a problem, because no-one in their right mind ever questions Xenon...
About the author
Born and raised in the countryside, Michael Ross was originally inspired to story-tell by the books he read and the beauty of the natural world that surrounded him. Aged 18, he left for the city and studied law at the University of Edinburgh. A successful and varied legal career, spanning 25 years, followed.
In the early 2000s, the first of his children was born and the stories which had been dancing in his mind burst free. At first, the stories were short and unwritten but as his children grew older, he began to write them down and they gradually grew in complexity and length. Leaving his career in law behind, he now continues the best traditions of Scottish storytelling, hoping that his novels will inspire the next generation of young readers.
