Fragmented Bodies Ronnie Brown 9781803782539

He yawned as the door closed and his face disappeared.

Outside, a watcher shuddered.

Retired university professor R.I. Penny believed assassins existed only in action movies, dramatic works of fiction, and occasionally politics.

Unfortunately for him, he finds this view shaken when two assassins attempt to 'retire' him full stop.

Enlisting his friends Dove and Periwinkle, Penny swiftly becomes both hunter and hunted, as they seek out the assassins, and their reasons for wanting Penny dead.

Luck, Penny believes, is a quality, a personal attribute. But is his about to run out?

Ronnie Brown is an author from Yorkshire, UK. His first novel Restless Souls was published in January 2023.

Ronnie has an MA in art history and critical theory, which he followed with his DPhil, under the tutorship of Nigel Llewelyn, whose book The Art of Death was an inspiration. His own DPhil on representations of suicide was published in 2001 as The Art of Suicide, after which he moved to Leeds to teach Art History and became a teaching fellow. At 58 he resigned and became a gardener until he was 65.

He has since played, written and recorded music, in a hobbyist capacity.