Warlight

In this spellbinding novel, Michael Ondaatje sets the careless freedom of adolescence against the chaos of post-war London. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel unexpectedly abandoned by their parents, are left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his colourful, eccentric crew of friends, men and women who seem mysteriously determined to protect them - but from what? And are they who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel sets out to piece together all he didn't understand at that time and is drawn back into the morally ambivalent, shadowy world of wartime Europe.