With bugs in her skin and noise in her head, Riz is real and the rest are fake.
What matters to her: Mark Rothko’s art. So despite the horror of family time,
it’s a fine thing that a major Rothko show coincides with the global conference
where her so-called Dad is such a big wheel.
Holed up with VIPs at a heavily guarded hotel, Riz collides with a sharp dressed
assassin she calls The Man. As she plunges into a world of covert deals and
power plays, Riz is befriended and betrayed by Russian and Syrian agents.
And emotionally bruised by the leader of a violent anticapitalist group in town
to protest the conference.
Told in Riz’s breathless, insistent voice, the edgy friendship between the isolated teen
and the travelling killer drives a thrill-ride through riot-torn London.
On the Level reviewed by Stephanie Cotsirilos for bookscover2cover
