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 author of The Talented Mr Ripley.
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense - Mark Billingham
The No. 1 greatest crime writer - The Times
An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel - The New York Times
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 - The New Yorker
Suspenseful and evocative - Stylist
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About Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.
