From the moment he was born, everyone knew Spencer White was destined for great things.
But life in the backstreets of post-war Manchester was not easy.
Spencer's father, John Henry White, drinks to ease the pain of his own childhood, and a dark secret that will eventually be his undoing.
Spencer's mother, Joan, works as a cleaner in an effort to make ends meet and tries to sell two framed prints to an art dealer thinking they are originals.
But the dealer is a police informer and the pictures were stolen during a suspected murder while Hitler bombed Manchester 15 years earlier.
This desperate woman's mistake triggers a cycle of vengeance and death that will haunt her brilliant young son.
Fortunately, Spencer meets Zilla Arbib, a woman who sees his potential and takes him under her wing.
But it will take all of her resources to keep the White family's past from ruining Spence's chance at a better life.
Now a seventy-year-old Judge, Spencer White must face the demons of his past and confront a secret that has laid hidden until now.
Geoffrey Seed's latest book, The Boy From Zion Street, is rooted in an intriguingly poignant family saga. It cuts between the judge's chaotic early life and the run-up to the 2015 British general election when chance and circumstance collide and Westminster's backstairs plotters trap him into a deadly political conspiracy.
'More than a thriller, more than a memoir, this is Geoffrey Seed's best book so far.' - Patrick Malahide
'Zion Street carried me back to a place I knew then dropped me in the present in a swirl of heartbreak and treachery. Gripping!' - CP Lee, broadcaster and leading media pundit.
'Seed draws on his childhood memories of war-damaged 1950s Manchester in this finely-drawn story of a tragic family haunted by guilt. His lyrical prose and his ability to create key characters whose fate absorbs the reader make The Boy From Zion Street impossible to put down' - Anne Loader, publisher.
'This writer combines a poet's love for words with a storyteller's flair for page-turning adventure' - Jonathan Veale, publisher and author.
'Geoffrey Seed certainly has a place in the line of successors to le Carre' - Karen Bryant Doering, US book reviewer.
Geoffrey Seed is a journalist and television producer, specialising in investigations into terrorism, corruption and human rights abuses for programmes like BBC Panorama and ITV's World in Action. The Kindle edition of his debut novel, A Place of Strangers, led Amazon's best selling political thriller list for months. His follow-up, The Convenience of Lies, was also a top ten hit. Both were widely acclaimed.
Genre: Thriller
But life in the backstreets of post-war Manchester was not easy.
Spencer's father, John Henry White, drinks to ease the pain of his own childhood, and a dark secret that will eventually be his undoing.
Spencer's mother, Joan, works as a cleaner in an effort to make ends meet and tries to sell two framed prints to an art dealer thinking they are originals.
But the dealer is a police informer and the pictures were stolen during a suspected murder while Hitler bombed Manchester 15 years earlier.
This desperate woman's mistake triggers a cycle of vengeance and death that will haunt her brilliant young son.
Fortunately, Spencer meets Zilla Arbib, a woman who sees his potential and takes him under her wing.
But it will take all of her resources to keep the White family's past from ruining Spence's chance at a better life.
Now a seventy-year-old Judge, Spencer White must face the demons of his past and confront a secret that has laid hidden until now.
Geoffrey Seed's latest book, The Boy From Zion Street, is rooted in an intriguingly poignant family saga. It cuts between the judge's chaotic early life and the run-up to the 2015 British general election when chance and circumstance collide and Westminster's backstairs plotters trap him into a deadly political conspiracy.
Praise for Geoffrey Seed
'More than a thriller, more than a memoir, this is Geoffrey Seed's best book so far.' - Patrick Malahide
'Zion Street carried me back to a place I knew then dropped me in the present in a swirl of heartbreak and treachery. Gripping!' - CP Lee, broadcaster and leading media pundit.
'Seed draws on his childhood memories of war-damaged 1950s Manchester in this finely-drawn story of a tragic family haunted by guilt. His lyrical prose and his ability to create key characters whose fate absorbs the reader make The Boy From Zion Street impossible to put down' - Anne Loader, publisher.
'This writer combines a poet's love for words with a storyteller's flair for page-turning adventure' - Jonathan Veale, publisher and author.
'Geoffrey Seed certainly has a place in the line of successors to le Carre' - Karen Bryant Doering, US book reviewer.
Geoffrey Seed is a journalist and television producer, specialising in investigations into terrorism, corruption and human rights abuses for programmes like BBC Panorama and ITV's World in Action. The Kindle edition of his debut novel, A Place of Strangers, led Amazon's best selling political thriller list for months. His follow-up, The Convenience of Lies, was also a top ten hit. Both were widely acclaimed.
Genre: Thriller
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