Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance

A well-intentioned English family unwittingly becomes complicit in state violence while traveling through China. A ploddingly respectable London lawyer chances upon a stash of cocaine and realizes it offers the wealth and status he''s always hungered for. A salesman in Africa gets caught up in a riot and a Palestinian suicide bomber has a moment of self-doubt. Kneale transports readers across continents in a nanosecond reaching to the heart of faraway societies with rare perceptiveness. With wry humor and razor-sharp satire these twelve thought-provoking stories illuminate the moral uncertainty of our time.