The Two Faces of January - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)
Patricia Highsmith (author), Sarah Hilary (author of introduction)Published: 02/06/2016
The author of The Talented Mr Ripley delivers a peerlessly disturbing masterpiece of suspicion, as a young drifter's life becomes dangerously entwined with a mysterious couple on their travels across Europe.
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train.
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.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349008080
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 219 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 21 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
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 - Val Hennessy, 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 - Stylist
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