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Virago Modern Classics (Book 203)

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING VIGGO MORTENSON AND KIRSTEN DUNST

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.

Critics Review

Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense
Mark Billingham
There are many attractive parts to this thriller - handsome leads, a meaty Patricia Highsmith plot, Mediterranean sunlight on cream linen suits
Guardian
The No. 1 greatest crime writer
The Times
An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel
New York Times
With fantastic pace and mounting tension the plot propels you into a nail-biting game of cat-and-mouse
Daily Mail
I'm a huge fan
Sarah Waters
Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night
New Yorker
[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
Graham Greene
Suspenseful and evocative
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Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
Author Patricia Highsmith
Narrator Christopher Ragland
Series Virago Modern Classics
Duration 9 hours and 26 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405531719
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE
Rating
5.0 (1 review)
Narration
5.0 (1 review)

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