A fast paced, adrenaline ride of a novel: 'Lord of the Flies' meets 'The Beach'Bored of the 'mango smoothie' trail and keen to spice up their Facebook albums, and maybe their sex lives, Jake and Will take a tour into China's jungle borderland with Burma. Their guide, however, has his own agenda and gradually the two gap-year students slip into a nightmarish spiral of murder and moral decay, their chance of survival determined by a game of hide and seek played out with deadly crossbows.

Simon Lewis was born in Wales in 1971. He studied art at college, then worked as a travel writer, researching guidebooks, mostly to China. His first novel, GO (Transworld, 2002), about backpackers, was written in a village in the Himalayas. His crime thriller, Bad Traffic (Sort Of Books, 2008) has been translated into six languages and was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize and the Prix SNCF du Polar in France. He spends his time in London, Tokyo and China.