The Fall Guy A Novel [Hardcover]

It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. As readers of James Lasduns acclaimed fiction can expect,Exceptionally entertaining. . . .?Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations.Aptly described as the literary descendant of Dostoevsky and Patricia Highsmith. . . .Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal.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 its the slow burn of obsession that makes it sing.As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in Lasduns combustible psychological thriller.Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same time. . . a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has been stalked.[A] terrific novel of suspense. . . Lasdun presents the inexorable turnings of fate in a subtle and disconcerting way.In this taut psychological thriller,a couple and their houseguest findthemselves caught in a deadly web ofsecrets, obsession, and revenge.