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Hunters in the Dark

Hunters in the Dark

by Lawrence Osborne (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

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Synopsis

Adrift in Cambodia, Robert Grieve - pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher - decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events involving a bag of 'jinxed' money, a suave American, a corrupt policeman and a rich doctor's daughter, in which Robert's life is changed forever. Alive with malice and grace, this is a taut tale reminiscent of the nightmares of Patricia Highsmith: a story of double identities, and innocence in the midst of evil, from a master of atmosphere and observation.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 07 May 2015
ISBN 10: 1781090335
ISBN 13: 9781781090336
Book Overview: The brilliant new novel from Lawrence Osborne - a modern Graham Greene (Sunday Times) - author of The Forgiven and The Ballad of a Small Player

Media Reviews
Osborne's brilliance as a travel writer places his web of deceit, greed and need ... in a world conjured up with dazzling immediacy ... Sumptuous and sinister, languorous and tense, this is a novel that gives Osborne's remarkable talents haunting scope -- Peter Kemp Sunday Times If the purpose of a novel is to take you away from the everyday and show you something different, then Osborne is succeeding, and handsomely. Hunters in the Dark is a novel of immersion... shaped like a quiet dream. As such, it's an unqualified success, and I hope it enjoys a wide readership -- Lee Child New York Times Cambodia...comes splendidly to life in Osborne's prose... This is a tip-top thriller. Osborne knows how to keep the pages turning; he is a name to watch -- Ian Thomson Independent Edgy and gripping ... Written with unfailing precision and beauty, Hunters in the Dark stakes out territory different to the many writers to whom Osborne has been compared. -- Neel Mukherjee Guardian Besides being a gripping thriller, it's a fine meditation on luck, fate and chance and a wonderful evocation of Cambodia, a country of ghosts, spirits and shadows -- Sebastian Shakespeare Daily Mail, Books of the Year
Author Bio
Born in England, Lawrence Osborne is a travel writer and novelist, and the author of Bangkok Days and The Forgiven. He has led a nomadic life, living in Paris, New York, Mexico, Istanbul and Bangkok, where he currently resides. Hunters in the Dark is his fourth novel. www.lawrenceosborne.net @lawrenceosborne