Unknown: A Novel [Paperback]

Martin Harris returns home after a short absence to find that his wife doesn't know him and another man is living in his house under his name. The imposter shares all of Martin's memories, experiences, and knowledge down to the last detail. Is it conspiracy? Amnesia? An elaborate hoax or his own paranoid delusion? Part moral fable, part thriller, Unknown is a fast-paced tale of one man's desperate attempt to reclaim his existence-even at the cost of his own life.

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A convincing little nightmare. A Twilight Zone-ish yarn that tests the very notion of how human identity is shaped.
-Entertainment Weekly

Simply thrilling. Its surprising denoument works a retrospective magic.
-The New York Times Book Review

Compelling ... The terse prose is unpretentious and the plot is full of captivating twists.
-San Francisco Chronicle

An engaging intellectual page-turner.
-Rain Taxi

Had Camus trained at the CIA, this is the book he would have written. A hauntingly literary espionage thriller.
-Brad Thor, author of State of the Union

Van Cauwelaert starts with a premise that could serve a Hitchcock thriller, a Twilight Zone episode, or a heavy-going exercise in existentialism. But [he] nimbly sidesteps clichT and pretense.... The swift final scene-a breathtaking jetT-should surprise even the most jaded fan of thrillers. A little gem.
-Kirkus ReviewsUS