Hunters in the Dark - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780553447361ISBN-10:055344736XUPC:9780553447361Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, Action & AdventureSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC9TYSBJ7W
From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense
Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events-- involving a bag of "jinxed" money, a suave American, a trunk full of heroin, a hustler taxi driver, and a rich doctor's daughter-- that changes Robert's life forever. Hunters in the Dark is a sophisticated game of cat and mouse redolent of the nightmares of Patricia Highsmith, where identities are blurred, greed trumps kindness, and karma is ruthless. Filled with Hitchcockian twists and turns, suffused with the steamy heat and pervasive superstition of the Cambodian jungle, and unafraid to confront difficult questions about the machinations of fate, this is a masterful novel that confirms Lawrence Osborne's reputation as one of our finest contemporary writers.
Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events-- involving a bag of "jinxed" money, a suave American, a trunk full of heroin, a hustler taxi driver, and a rich doctor's daughter-- that changes Robert's life forever. Hunters in the Dark is a sophisticated game of cat and mouse redolent of the nightmares of Patricia Highsmith, where identities are blurred, greed trumps kindness, and karma is ruthless. Filled with Hitchcockian twists and turns, suffused with the steamy heat and pervasive superstition of the Cambodian jungle, and unafraid to confront difficult questions about the machinations of fate, this is a masterful novel that confirms Lawrence Osborne's reputation as one of our finest contemporary writers.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780553447361ISBN-10:055344736XUPC:9780553447361Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, Action & AdventureSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC9TYSBJ7W
Lawrence Osborne is the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling author of the novels THE FORGIVEN and THE BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER, and of six books of nonfiction, including THE WET AND THE DRY. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Forbes, Harper's, and several other publications. He currently lives in Bangkok.
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
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