Nicolas Freeling: A City Solitary

From the Publisher:
A harmless, self-obsessed writer is attacked by muggers in his own home but what starts as an assault turns into an unusual kidnapping. This is an entrancing tale where the hunter and the hunted become the subject of an enthralling scrutiny under the pen of a master crimewriter.

'Freeling in his feet-on-the-desk cabbages-and-kings vein is an acquired taste, but well worth acquiring' The Observer