I’ve finished “One False Move” by Robert Goddard. A young man is a prodigy at playing Go and makes a local businessman a lot of money using his skills to trade shares. A computer games company wants to recruit him to improve their products, and attempts to buy him out of his contract with unexpected results involving various shady government departments. A decent story, I usually enjoy stuff by this author though I did find the early parts of the book quite slow going, and had to keep going back to recap.
I’ve just read “Kill a Stranger” by Simon Kernick. A couple come back to the UK to have their child when the girl is kidnapped and her partner is told that he must kill a man and recover a flash driver if he ever wants to see her again. He tries to do this, various things go wrong and the plot untangles. A good story, I was a bit irritated at the start as it jumps about between past and present story lines, but it came good in the end.