Blackeyes is a literary thriller of immense subtlety and power.

Writer Maurice James Kingsley is seventy-seven. It is twenty years since he has produced a novel, but when he does, his picture of London's demi-monde, seen through the career of the model known as Blackeyes, is the surprise hit of the season. But, when life starts to imitate fiction, the plot takes a new and sinister twist . . .