Below the Thunder

A history professor in his forties, Bryn Williams, is a long way from a secret agent. One summer evening in Bavaria he tumbles into romance and, at the same moment, into serious danger. MI6, Mossad and an American hitman all come to see him as a target, but he is unaware of any of it and carries on with his holiday in America. While walking alone through a National Park, he comes across a freshly dead body. He is arrested for the murder and freed only once evidence pointing to a third person surfaces.

The trouble is not over. After he works out who the killer is and reports it to the San Francisco police, his motel room is blown up.

The story moves between a quiet academic's ordinary holiday and a spiral of espionage, false accusation and violence, with an everyman hero who must keep his head as the stakes rise.