{"product_id":"the-fall-guy-9780393292329","title":"The Fall Guy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Exceptionally entertaining. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Fall Guy\u003c\/em\u003e reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith. . . . This is exactly what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift, unsettling. [Lasdun] deserves to find more readers on these shores.\" -- New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations.\" -- Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"Aptly described as the literary descendant of Dostoevsky and Patricia Highsmith. . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Fall Guy\u003c\/em\u003e is a twisty, chilly, exquisitely written, and tautly suspenseful exploration of big ideas in the guise of a psychological thriller.\" -- Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\"Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal.\" -- Lionel Shriver - Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\"Expertly playing the noir card, Lasdun dissects the mercurial relationships among a wealthy financier, his photographer wife and an aimless cousin during a long hot summer in upstate New York. There are plenty of lies and betrayals in this stylish thriller, but it’s the slow burn of obsession that makes it sing.\" -- People\u003cbr\u003e\"As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in Lasdun’s combustible psychological thriller.\" -- Entertainment Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\"Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same time. . . a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has been stalked.\" -- Seattle Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] terrific novel of suspense. . . Lasdun presents the inexorable turnings of fate in a subtle and disconcerting way.\" -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525132034391,"sku":"9780393292329","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393292329.jpg?v=1731859348","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fall-guy-9780393292329","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}