The Cave

The Cave

by Sam Garrett (Translator), Tim Krabbe (Author)

Synopsis

Respectable geologist Egon Wagter has always found the amoral Axel van de Graaf's charisma difficult to resist. But from their first meeting as adolescents on a field trip to Belgium, when three lives became inextricably linked in the caves of La Roche, he has never yet allowed himself to be drawn into his friend's criminal life. Instead he has kept his independence, preferring to learn about Axel's exploits as a drug baron from the papers. Now his life as a family man is in tatters and the escape route offered by an expedition to South America lacks only $40,000 to become a reality. So here he is, far from home in a South East Asian country where the penalty for running drugs is death, running drugs for Axel, but maybe also on the brink of finally understanding the secret of the cave and the love that might have been.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 14 Jan 2002

ISBN 10: 0747556237
ISBN 13: 9780747556237
Book Overview: The Cave, a bestseller in Holland, is the new novel by the author of the novel and cult film The Vanishing

Media Reviews
'Krabbe's carefully constructed narrative has a geometry so precise that the patterns buried under the surface emerge only in the final pages' New York Times 'Full of beautiful coincidences, epiphanies, turning points and roads not taken' Los Angeles Times
Author Bio
Tim Krabbe is a chess as well as a cycling enthusiast and one of Holland's leading writers. His many books include the noir novels The Vanishing and The Cave. He lives in Amsterdam. Sam Garrett, a former wire-service correspondent, is the translator of The Rider, also by Tim Krabbe and The Gates of Damascus by Lieve Joris.