Martin Amis's greatest novel to-date sees the great questions asked in a setting of purest evil. What would you do? What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it? The Zone of Interest recounts a dark love story. It is a dark journey into the desires and contradictions of the human soul.
Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an entire regiment against him, hunting for him as they did for no other. He was wounded, and racked by tropical disease. His companions were killed, or captured...