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By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train.
‘The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense’ MARK BILLINGHAM
‘The No. 1 greatest crime writer’ THE TIMES
‘I’m a huge fan’ SARAH WATERS
Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined.
Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley.
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train.
‘The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense’ MARK BILLINGHAM
‘The No. 1 greatest crime writer’ THE TIMES
‘I’m a huge fan’ SARAH WATERS
Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined.
Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley.
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Reviews
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense
The No. 1 greatest crime writer
Suspenseful and evocative
There are many attractive parts to this thriller - handsome leads, a meaty Patricia Highsmith plot, Mediterranean sunlight on cream linen suits
Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night
With fantastic pace and mounting tension the plot propels you into a nail-biting game of cat-and-mouse
An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel
I'm a huge fan
[Highsmith's] characters are irrational, and they leap to life in their very lack of reason . . . Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear
