Nicholas Hogg

Show Me the Sky: a Novel Nicholas Hogg

Time is running out for detective James Dent. After having spent a year on the trail of the missing British rock star Billy K, he and his team have exhausted every lead. His relentless search has already cost him both family and home, but Dent decides to go it alone. Abandoning his job at the Missing Persons Bureau, Dent boards a plane to Australia with nothing but a page torn from Show Me the Sky, the 1834 journal of a Fijian missionary—the book Billy K was reading when he vanished.
From the love letter of a stranded motorcyclist in central Australia to the back streets and brothels of Mombasa, Dent?s search leads him across continents and into the past. As Dent begins to piece these parts of the puzzle together with Billy?s disappearance, he recalls his own past as a teenage fugitive, considering why a man might walk away from his own life, and leaving him to wonder if he is trailing a man, a ghost, or himself.
Somewhere between adventure story, historical voyage, and a quest for self-discovery, Show Me the Sky is an ambitiously crafted debut novel bringing four riveting narrative threads together into an unforgettable ride.