From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted thriller in the vein of John Le Carre's APerfect Spy.
Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes.
Your mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things.In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital.
Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow.
Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide: who is telling the truth, his mother or his father? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 9781847396754
Number of pages: 384
Dimensions: 198 x 130 mm
Having read a few sedate books of late I was thrilled to listen to the audio of The Farm. Tom Rob Smith has crafted an intricately woven story here that is tantalizingly slow to unravel. Psychological thriller? Oh... More
The 1st ever stand-alone thriller from Tom Rob Smith, author of Child 44! Tapping into his real life experiences, this is a massive change of pace for Smith. The story concerns a young man who believes his parents to... More
Just who are you going to believe, your mother or your father? The trouble is both are telling you a convincing story. So after sitting down and listening to your mother you decide you have to hear your fathers side.... More
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