Read by Rula Lenska.

No wonder Philip Winter feels driven to fake his own death. Once predatory
Sandra White accuses him of attempted rape, his life is basically over;
even after he's acquitted in court, he can't get another job, and his own
wife and daughter think "he must have done something wrong, if not what
she said." Abandoning his car by a lake that might suggest drowning, Philip
slips away into a twilight world of aimless lorry rides, long days without
washing or proper meals, and the occasional odd job, as his unshaven beard
starts to come in white. But things are about to get worse, for Philip's
wanderings bring him together with Denis Smith, an illiterate thief who's
hooked up to an even more dangerous woman: animal-rights terrorist Tessa
Graham, whose passion is so scorching that she doesn't mind shooting a few
rabbits to make her point. As Yorke leaps back and forth between inoffensive
Philip (whose family is sketched with the author's usual brisk authority)
and Tessa's makeshift gang - especially her lover Orlando, who takes it
upon himself to avenge Philip's suffering, and a student recruit called Jet,
who's nursing secrets of her own - you find yourself waiting breathlessly
for the inevitable collision of the guilty-seeming and the truly guilty.

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