On the bookshelf of Miranda Brown's life, romance is always out of reach. In the fast-track of Burnt Umber's Intelligence career, a honey-trap is barely first-gear. But in less than three days Burnt must break Miranda's heart - or her neck.Could this have anything to do with the dog-eared paperback Miranda innocently purloined from the local library, a book with a conspiracy theory about 'love' so devastating that every other copy has been mysteriously destroyed?And what happens when that 'borrowed' book takes on a life of its own and cannot stop itself from falling in love with its reader?From Shepherd's Bush Library to the coast of Montenegro via the damp alleys of Venice, this is a comic story of base humour and high romance, of books and book lovers. More pointed than Tom Sharpe - imagine Umberto Eco with a sense of humour - Marius Brill and Paul Pennyfeather have produced a novel to fall in love with. Read Less