‘All I can say is, listen to the news on Saturday and all will be revealed. Expect some fireworks.’

Claudia Valenti is beautiful and charming, passionate about the Brazilian rainforest and secretive about her plans for saving it. She leaves her native Brazil and settles in London, striking up an unusual friendship with Peter Miller, a middle-aged accountant whose ordinary life, once governed by the clock, is soon thrown into disarray. After news breaks of a terrorist attack in São Paulo, Claudia must confront her past and reckon with the lengths she’ll go—or has gone—to protect the environment. When two American agents are dispatched to find the suspect, the story begins taking unexpected turns, including a foray into a clandestine space program directed by a wily Russian tycoon. Blogger and journalist Nina Simmons believes she is onto something when her investigation brings her to a small village in Suffolk. Will she be able to set the record straight and avoid disaster once again?

An Impossible Escape is Sebastian Kalwij’s second novel. This quirky thriller will grip you and leave you in awe of how rapidly normal circumstances can spiral out of control.