The Last Best Friend

Classic thriller fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

"Sims takes the reader on a journey to a long-gone world where entire streets of London were devoted to the trade of rare books—items valuable enough to attract the most nefarious of mobsters." —Publishers Weekly

"The small man standing on the narrow ledge stared fixedly forward with eyes made wide and blank by terror."

At 2pm on a Monday in 1966, Ned Balfour wakes in Corsica beside a beautiful woman.

In the same instant, back in Lond...