A traumatic incident at sea cuts short John Eyre’s career as an oil rig diver and his romance with Rachel.
 
Big, disfigured and psychically sensitive, John roams Central America, where he is beguiled by Maximon, a trickster god.

When the mask confining the god is stolen and a village asks John to find their protective spirit, he will embark on the riskiest of adventures.
 
His allies are a reluctant Rachel, fellow lodgers from a London guest house, and a Guatemalan girl with a unique jade ball.
 
As unearthly powers, not least Maximon himself, are awakened by a quest far greater than they realize, John will need the help he can get.
 
urban fantasy thriller
550 pages
 
“He went fishing,” wheezed the gentleman from South London. “All the way across town to the river. He was so bloody huge, he’d limp and lurch along faster than anyone else could walk.”

“He was very big, very ugly and very silent,” added Kayam. “Well, not so much ugly as disfigured. Pretty, he wasn’t.”

“Now and then he’d smell of something like meaty old boots,” said the Scotsman from behind thick, dark glasses.

“He read thirteen newspapers every day and never gave no trouble,” declared their landlady.  Read more...