Graham Joyce is a bright star of modern British literature, a subtle psychologist and master of a fascinating plot, an author who, according to the eminent Jonathan Carroll, writes exactly those books that we spend our entire lives hoping to find, but very rarely find. "Red Poppies" is perhaps the most adventurous novel in his varied career. In an uncompromising, powerful work, Graham Joyce tells the story of an English electrician forced into a mortal battle for the life and soul of his daughter with Thai drug lords and the Spirit of Opium himself.