FoeWhen Susan Barton is marooned on an island in the middle of the Atlantic she enters the world of two men. One is a mute negro called Friday; the other is Robinson Cruso. The Island is a society already at work. Its rules are simple: survival, industry and order. Cruso is master and Friday is the slave. Susan watches the creation of a barren world an architecture of stone terraces above bleak and empty beaches and waits to be rescued. Back in London,

Testament is a startling feat of imaginative skill

the oath-breaker King Gorm - the man who betrayed his father

Suleiman turns to his mother

Warned by Patta

where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order

Beautiful Angeles Falco and her sister Maura have made an appointment to see private investigator

The night he killed a twelve-year-old child in self-defence in a Philadelphia shootout

and a dark magic that could destroy it all

soon to be destroyed because of its very special version of toxic pollution a down-at-heel

to sit among the dunghills

But Foe is less interested in the history of the island than in the story if Susan herself

where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace