He arrives just 90 minutes before the world's second atomic bomb explodes into his life.
As he battles through the scene of apocalyptic destruction, surrounded by unthinkable suffering, he is plagued by one constant question: is he lucky, or unlucky?
Compellingly vivid, the most sustained description of apocalypse since Robert Harris's Pompeii. The Financial Times
One man miraculously survives the Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima. Two days later he catches the last train home. Home to Nagasaki. He arrives just 90 minutes before the world's second atomic bomb explodes into his life.
As he battles through the scene of apocalyptic destruction, surrounded by unthinkable suffering, he is plagued by one constant question: is he lucky, or unlucky? This is his answer: he's the luckiest man alive.
“Compellingly vivid, the most sustained description of apocalypse since Robert Harris's Pompeii.”
The Financial Times
William Coles has been a journalist for 25 years and was the New York Correspondent, Political Correspondent and Royal Reporter on The Sun. He has written for a wide variety of papers and magazines ranging from The Wall Street Journal to The Mail, The Scotsman and Prima Baby Magazine. For the past five years, he has been a tabloid consultant with South Africa's biggest newspaper group, Media 24, as well as The Herald Group in Glasgow and DC Thomson in Dundee.
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