Armadillo
William Boyd
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  • Published: 8 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141044187
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $30.00

Armadillo

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4 Jan 1999
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8 Oct 2020
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8 Aug 2019
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Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster and hypocrisy. His business, trying to keep insurance companies from paying out the money they've promised, is a con game run with the protection of the law.

One winter's morning, Lorimer goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. A bad start to the day, by any standards, and an ominous portent of things to come.
  • Published: 8 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141044187
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

William Boyd

William Boyd is the author of one work of non-fiction, three collections of short stories and thirteen novels, including the bestselling historical spy thriller Restless – winner of the Costa Novel of the Year – and Any Human Heart, in which the character of Ian Fleming features. Among his other awards are the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Jean Monnet. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2005, he was awarded the CBE.

Born in Ghana in 1952, William Boyd spent much of his early life in West Africa. He now divides his time between the south-west of France and Chelsea, where he lives a stone’s throw from James Bond’s London address.

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Praise for Armadillo

Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner

Andrew Motion, Observer

Armadillo doesn't miss a trick. It has depth and resonance which will make you want to read it again... zinging readability

Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday

A joy to read: east to get into, addictively plotted and beautifully written

James Delingpole, Daily Mail

As entertaining as anything he has written... brisk farce and dialogue that can be finger-licking good

David Profumo, Spectator

As entertaining and as thought-provoking as anything Boyd has ever written

Daily Telegraph