 Duncan McLeanBunker ManA powerful novel of psychological suspense by a young writer hailed as "Scotland's answer to Roddy Doyle."--CosmopolitanRob and Karen Catto are a newly married young couple settling into their lives together on the northeast coast of Scotland. Rob's job as a janitor at the local school involves him in both the lives of his students and issues of security. So he takes sharp notice of a hulking figure in a parka lurking around the edges of the school, leering through windows, and squatting in an abandoned concrete bunker. As unpleasant and unsettling incidents multiply, Rob's suspicions tilt into obsession. It is time for a showdown. Time to confront Bunker Man . . .  A powerful, terrifying tale of horror and breakdown
from an extraordinarily gifted young writer a smashing
American debut.
"Another massive blow against the supremacy of literary London. . . . What really gives the book its charge is its powerful sense of menace."--Tibor Fischer, The Times (London) Duncan McLean is the author of the story collection Bucket of Tongues, which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1993, and the novel Blackden. He lives in Orkney in Scotland. 1997 / paperback original / ISBN 0-393-31616-5 / 304 pages / fiction | |||||
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