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''The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect'' Daily Telegraph


Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...

Harry ''Preacher'' Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and HATE, is out of prison and doing the Devil''s work. He knows his ex-cellmate hid $10,000 somewhere. He knows how to charm his way into unsuspecting lives. And he knows where the man''s family lives. As he hunts them down, a terrifying game of cat and mouse begins. One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter is a savage tale of innocence and evil in the Depression-era South.



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Davis Grubb's The Night of the Hunter remains the gold standard of southern noir. Grubb's unforgettably charismatic and psychopathic villain, Harry Powell, still has the power to flood your twenty-first century dreams with terror. -- Richard Price
A thriller which commands one's frozen attention. It is also a work of beauty and power and astonishing verbal magic. * New York Times *

The Night of the Hunter

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 13 July 2023
      ISBN-13 9780241640425
      978-0241640425
      ISBN-10 0241640423
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      Fiction Crime & Thrillers

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect'' Daily Telegraph


      Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...

      Harry ''Preacher'' Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and HATE, is out of prison and doing the Devil''s work. He knows his ex-cellmate hid $10,000 somewhere. He knows how to charm his way into unsuspecting lives. And he knows where the man''s family lives. As he hunts them down, a terrifying game of cat and mouse begins. One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter is a savage tale of innocence and evil in the Depression-era South.



      Trade Review
      Davis Grubb's The Night of the Hunter remains the gold standard of southern noir. Grubb's unforgettably charismatic and psychopathic villain, Harry Powell, still has the power to flood your twenty-first century dreams with terror. -- Richard Price
      A thriller which commands one's frozen attention. It is also a work of beauty and power and astonishing verbal magic. * New York Times *

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