Would you kill someone if you knew you could get away with it? John Taff’s taut thriller The Sorcerer’s Apprentice begins with that very question. And David Benning, a successful accountant, is seriously asking it. His dying father is racking up exorbitant charges at an expensive nursing home. And then there’s that bank account fat with embezzled money.

When he’s blackmailed by a shadowy organization known only as “The Group,” David finds himself thrust into a world far beyond his normal boundaries, one in which his survival requires him to kill seemingly ordinary people.

Welcome to a nightmare. It’s David Benning’s this time, but could be yours the next.

– Richard Curtis