Fearless

Miles Harrington thought he was channelling Hemingway.

Six months on a private island, a novel brewing, rum at arm’s reach - the perfect exile to prove to his wife Amy that he was more than just a pampered freeloader living off her father’s money. Masterpiece incoming.

Except, of course, nothing was incoming. Unless you count hangovers.

When Amy turns up early with their two children and a reality check, Miles does what he always does, and scrambles to charm his way out of trouble. But before he can spin another excuse, real-life armed pirates arrive after a botched oil-tank. Suddenly, the only thing he may be writing is his own disaster story.

Miles has read every Jack Reacher, every Bond, every door-stop thriller in print. He knows exactly what the heroes would do. The problem? He’s not a hero. He’s a writer. And a failing one at that.

Outnumbered, outgunned, and completely out of his depth, Miles has to decide: keep pretending, or face the unthinkable truth that saving his family might require the kind of sacrifice no book could have prepared him for.

Fearless is a darkly funny, high-stakes thriller about family, failure, and the gulf between the heroes we read about and the men we really are.