Wheel of Fortune is a novel of intrigue, adventure and explicit sexuality. In it, an English teacher flees the threat of death across the world in the company of his provocative pupil.
When the diffident and ineffectual Derek Mann loses his teaching job in a girls' grammar school and drifts from one temporary post to another, one of his precocious pupils gives him her grandfather's wartime diary with a mission to return to Apartheid South Africa and find the opal mine she believes to be her rightful inheritance. Intrigue and violence bedevil the quest, which ends in a desert under the Southern Cross. The wry, often laconic style gives full reign to the characters' latent sexuality.
Author Bio: Humphrey Muller, once a professor of English in South Africa during the Apartheid years, moved to Scotland to devote more time to creative writing. He has since written a number of novels: A Twist in Time, the Cage and the Cross, Wheel of Fortune, Continental Drift, and with his wife Carolyn has co-authored two novels: Rapture at Sea and Spirit of Ecstasy by 'Carolyn Charles'.