The Marionette

Michael Gereon lives with his estranged wife Peggy in a decayed house in the East End of London. The same house in which his mother was battered to death in a drug-deal gone wrong when he was sixteen. 

Years later, a psychiatrist thinks Michael has a schizoid disorder, with his delusion of spectral powers.

Michael thinks every one else is deluded, since they don't realise they are puppets subject to random forces beyond their control. That, at least, is what he has deduced from his university career in philosophy.

When paintings suspected to be forgeries by Michael's best friend appear on the London art circuit, a chain of murderous events is set in motion. Michael's sanity, and his philosophical doubts, are tested to the limit.

A relentless, haunting study of alienation in a world of corruption and lurking violence, set in the atmospheric streets of Spitalfields.