Presumption of Guilt — Jeffrey Ashford

Stranded in Spain without enough money to return home to England, Angus Stern takes a job driving a car back to Britain, a mission that leads him into conflict with police and makes him the target of unknown but deadly enemies.

HIS NAME, HIS FREEDOM, AND EVEN HIS LIFE ARE AT STAKE: ANGUS STERN DOESN'T KNOW WHY HE'S STILL IN THE GAME.

A relatively harmless deception--driving a car from Spain to England--becomes a disastrous nightmare as an innocent man faces overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

There were formless mists as he became aware of himself. Then there was pain, at first remote, but all too soon immediate, Someone murmured meaningless but comforting words: the mists closed in and there was nothing.

Later there was form. A room with a high ceiling and a central light with a frilly, plastic shade which made him think of Brighton boarding houses. He stared at the shade and tried to work out how he could have come to be faced by such a monstrosity, but the pounding pain in his head had made the problem too difficult. He closed his eyes and drifted off into an uneasy sleep that was filled with violent nightmares.