Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers

Fargo Hawkins is 20, he’s Harry Swaine’s gardener. One day, after he sees a fight between Harry and his wife Anne, Fargo steals a car and he, Anne, and a dog called Radar go on the run. They are chased across England by Harry, a firm of detectives, and their emotions. Eventually, at a caravan site in Wales, the climax between Fargo and Harry unfolds.

Peter Benson was born in Vienna, Austria in 1956. He spent his childhood travelling with his parents, and after an abortive university career and a series of agricultural jobs, settled in Somerset in the 1980s. He published his first novel, THE LEVELS in 1987, and this and his subsequent novels won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Author’s Club First Novel Award, the Encore Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and established him as ‘one of the most distinctive voices in modern British fiction.’