The Adversary [electronic resource] : A True Story of Monstrous Deception

Carrère, Emmanuel2018

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The Sunday Times BestsellerWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the MonthOn the Saturday Morning of January 9, 1993, While Jean Claude Romand Was Killing His Wife and Children, I Was With Mine in a Parent-Teacher Meeting..With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.'As a writer, Carrère 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 Díaz'Mesmerising' Sunday Telegraph'Stunning' Evening Standard'Unputdownable' Washington Post'A masterpiece' New York Times