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The Two Faces of January

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27th March 2014

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING VIGGO MORTENSON AND KIRSTEN DUNST

By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train.

‘The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense’ MARK BILLINGHAM


‘The No. 1 greatest crime writer’ THE TIMES

‘I’m a huge fan’ SARAH WATERS

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 bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley.

Reviews

Mark Billingham
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense
The Times
The No. 1 greatest crime writer
New Yorker
Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night
Sarah Waters
I'm a huge fan
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail
With fantastic pace and mounting tension the plot propels you into a nail-biting game of cat-and-mouse
New York Times
An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel
Graham Greene
[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
Guardian
There are many attractive parts to this thriller - handsome leads, a meaty Patricia Highsmith plot, Mediterranean sunlight on cream linen suits
Stylist
Suspenseful and evocative