Levkas Man

The tale of an archaeological dig gone terribly wrong from "Great Britain's leading adventure novelist" (Financial Times).

When his parents died, Paul was sent to Amsterdam to live with his mother's old lover, the eccentric archaeologist Pieter Van der Voort. Paul became a man in that cramped, strange house, cooped up with skeletons, fossils, and his increasingly mad guardian, who was obsessed with the search for the origins of man.

Finally, Paul can take no more. He hops a freighter an...