Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendome)
Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carr?re, whose fiction John Updike described as stunning (The New Yorker) explores the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.
Unputdownable...Imagine a sleek, twenty-first century version ofIn Cold Blood. The Washington Post Book World
The mesmerizing true crime tale of an apparently ordinary man whose life mutates in the space of a few blood-splattering hours from the realm of Renoir to that of Stephen King. People
Mesmerizing...a fascinating meditation on Jean-Claude Romand and what his bizarre life might mean. The New York Times Book Review
As a writer, Carr?re is straight berserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize the hold he's got on you when you attempt to pull away....You say: True crime and Literature? I don't believe it. I say: Believe it. Junot D?az, author of Drown
EmmanuelCarr?reis one of France's most critically acclaimed writers, author of screenplays, a biography of Philip K. Dick, and two novels, including
Class Trip, which won the prestigious Prix Femina. A major bestseller in France,
The Adversaryis being published in eighteen countries. Carr?re lives in Paris.
![The Adversary A True Story of Monstrous Deception [Paperback]](/itemImage/2/9/3/7/2_303501.jpg "The Adversary A True Story of Monstrous Deception [Paperback] xxx")