Robert Wilson has spent several years in West Africa, and he drew on this experience for his Bruce Medway novels. He and his wife now live in Portugal, where The Company of Strangers is partly set.

'Displaying once again Wilson's gifts for atmospheric depiction of place, this ambitious experiment is streets ahead of most other thrillers' John Dugdale, Sunday Times 'With Company of Strangers Wilson again shows himself to be one of our finest writers and a storyteller with few equals' Jim Driver, Time Out 'Wilson employs a slightly out-of-focus prose style that eminently suits his tale of intrigue and double-dealing ! watch his star, for it is surely in the ascendent' Vincent Banville, Irish Times 'Wilson's tale is a plotter's delight: spanning several decades and cleverly reworking past narratives in the light of new evidence, he creates an intriguing moral maze for his heroine to negotiate -- and a puzzle of metaphors to match (he's a better stylist than du Maurier). Recommended' Chris Petit, Guardian 'A big, meaty novel of love and deceit ! with this novel Wilson vaults to the front-rank of thriller writers' Peter Guttridge, Observer

Robert Wilson has spent several years in West Africa, and he drew on this experience for his Bruce Medway novels. He and his wife now live in Portugal, where The Company of Strangers is partly set.

'Displaying once again Wilson's gifts for atmospheric depiction of place, this ambitious experiment is streets ahead of most other thrillers' John Dugdale, Sunday Times 'With Company of Strangers Wilson again shows himself to be one of our finest writers and a storyteller with few equals' Jim Driver, Time Out 'Wilson employs a slightly out-of-focus prose style that eminently suits his tale of intrigue and double-dealing ! watch his star, for it is surely in the ascendent' Vincent Banville, Irish Times 'Wilson's tale is a plotter's delight: spanning several decades and cleverly reworking past narratives in the light of new evidence, he creates an intriguing moral maze for his heroine to negotiate -- and a puzzle of metaphors to match (he's a better stylist than du Maurier). Recommended' Chris Petit, Guardian 'A big, meaty novel of love and deceit ! with this novel Wilson vaults to the front-rank of thriller writers' Peter Guttridge, Observer