Flight from Llan

About the Book

Piers Urquhart is caught up unwittingly in a large scale scam, trying to help his friend fulfil his obligations to his Swiss boss, which involves releasing United Nations funds in the United States for the purchase of baby food, tractors and diesel fuel, to benefit third world countries. Instead of being able to help with such aid, Piers is wrongly imprisoned on the island of Llan. He manages to escape with the help of a beautiful girl from Berlin, who, believing in Piers’s innocence, enlists the help of a fellow countryman and former lover, who is now a leading secret service agent based in Bonn, and who is assigned officially by his government to help unravel the fraud. There follows a thrilling chase across Northern Europe to Switzerland, then New York state, The Everglades, and finally the Pyramids in Guatemala, where an unusual fate awaits the principal fraudster. The tale is one of intrigue, police corruption and a total collapse of everything familiar in Piers’s life, culminating in an unexpected and dramatic ending.

About the Author

Mark D’Alby’s debut novel is partly biographical and partly fiction. His original background being in medicine, he also has gained journalistic experience in the United Kingdom, Europe, and indeed worldwide. He has supported the birth of a new weekly newspaper in Southern Thailand, which covers news stories, articles, health, humanitarian, and animal welfare issues, not only in Thailand, but expanding into nearby Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Malaysia, and Singapore. His next novel Teardrops in Siam is set on the Island of Koh Samui, involving an attractive girl from Isaan, who gets caught up in the bright lights and need to earn big money and deals with the pain and emotions involved in cross-cultural differences between East and West.