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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 06/07/2017
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ISBN: 9781473547858
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Length: 208 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in The Times
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
ON THE SATURDAY MORNING OF JANUARY 9, 1993, WHILE JEAN CLAUDE ROMAND WAS KILLING HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN, I WAS WITH MINE IN A PARENT-TEACHER MEETING...
With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.
'As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize the hold he's got on you when you attempt to pull away... You say: True crime and literature? I don't believe it. I say: Believe it' Junot Díaz
'Mesmerising' Sunday Telegraph
'Stunning' Evening Standard
'Unputdownable' Washington Post
'A masterpiece' New York Times
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 06/07/2017
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ISBN: 9781473547858
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Length: 208 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"This is the sort of story I dreamed of covering when I was a journalist. The sort of story for which the phrase You couldn’t make it up was invented. The Adversary takes a deep, mesmerising dive into the darkness of a human soul. There were moments when I truly could not believe what I was reading. But unlike other serial killer noirs sitting on my shelves, this horror is real. And so much more chilling for that."
Fiona Barton, author of The Widow
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"The story told here is truly beyond the imagination for even the best crime writer"
Sunday Times
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"The mesmerizing true crime tale of an apparently ordinary man whose life mutates in the space of a few blood-splattering hours from the realm of Renoir to that of Stephen King"
People
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"He’s the best kind of writer, not just a bestseller but a man who is not afraid to leave the comfort zone of his desk, go out into the world, take risks, and get his shoes dirty"
Observer
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"A triumph of insight and concision, brilliant both as a psychological study and as the portrayal of a community"
Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday
