Children of radium Author Forename:Joe the friend you need is

the friend you need is the one you never saw coming

From Shakespeare's 'feathr'd king' to Ted Hughes 'butterfly lightness'

But as Macintyre sets up his operation in the exclusive north eastern corner of the island

Now it's up to Clarke and Rebus to connect the dots and stop a killer

Most were presumed dead

Children of radium Author Forename:Joe the friend you need isJoe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great grandfather, Siegfried: an eccentric scientist who invented radioactive toothpaste and a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who returned to Germany under cover of the Berlin Olympics to pull off a heist on his own home. The only problem was that Siegfried had already written the book of his life an unpublished, two thousand page memoir so dry and rambling that none of his living descendants had