Judged by Dame Beryl Bainbridge and thriller writer Craig Thomas as runner up for the Lichfield prize, Exchange of Blood tells the story of a sleazy used car salesman Peter Thomas, who, as the result of an accident, becomes involved with GreekMoreJudged by Dame Beryl Bainbridge and thriller writer Craig Thomas as runner up for the Lichfield prize, Exchange of Blood tells the story of a sleazy used car salesman Peter Thomas, who, as the result of an accident, becomes involved with Greek pharmaceuticals millionaire Polaikis Chamides.
Badly disfigured, Thomas dovetails himself into the Greek family and discovers it is the final link in a drugs chain that stretches from Colombia, through Düsseldorf, to Wales. He travels to Germany and decides to bring down the whole house of cards. Along the way he encounters blackmail, his nymphomaniac ‘sister-in-law’ and his murderous ‘brother’.
He struggles against huge odds. Will he ever reach the peace, the calm, the ‘life’, that he desperately wants?