Mind Game, The

Description: Mandanzi, Africa. Paradise on earth. Ben knows that nothing this good comes free. But he's prepared to pay the price. What seems on the surface to be a passionate holiday with his lover is, in fact, the first crucial stage of some ground-breaking research. Ben and his renowned Oxford professor are on the brink of developing a cure for that most disturbing illness - sickness of the mind. Lying on the beach with the bewitching Cara, Ben finds it easy to forget the real purpose of his trip to Africa. Until paradise turns to hell, and suddenly he realises that all the rules he thought he was playing by no longer apply. Review: Madanzi is Paradise on Earth and lying on the beach with the bewitching Cara, Ben finds it easy to forget the real purpose of his trip to Africa. Yet he knows that nothing this good comes free and he is prepared to pay the price. For this vacation is in fact the first crucial stage of some ground-breaking research by Ben and his renowned Oxford professor who are on the brink of developing a cure for sickness of the mind. An ingenious thriller in the bestselling tradition of The Beach. Prizes: Shortlisted for WH Smith Thumping Good Read Book Award 2002 and WHSmith Book Awards (New Talent) 2002 and W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award 2002. Author Biography: Hector Macdonald was brought up in Kenya, educated in England and has travelled all round the world. He is 27 and this is his first novel. He lives in London.