Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for July (2017)
On the Saturday Morning of January 9,1993,while Jean Claude Romand was killing his wife and children,I was in a parent-teacher meeting...
With these chilling first words,acclaimed master of psychological suspense Emmanuel Carrere begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor,eighteen years of lies,five murders,and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784705800Number of pages: 208Weight: 149 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 13 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'A masterpiece... it's a level of moral discomfort almost without equal in literature'- New York Times
'Savagely intense and utterly compelling... this is his paciest and cleanest-cut book... few books could better deserve a second chance to find new readers'- Sunday Times
'The Adversary is exactly the idea I have of a modern novel: struggling deftly with facts and with itself'- Laurent Binet,author of HHhH
'An absolutely stunning piece of work,totally involving and unforgettable'- Evening Standard
'Unputdownable... imagine a sleek,twenty-first century version of In Cold Blood'- Washington Post
'A remarkably thoughtful and unnerving book... mesmerising'- Sunday Telegraph
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