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By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train.

'The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM

'The No. 1 greatest crime writer' THE TIMES

'I'm a huge fan' SARAH WATERS

Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined.

Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley.

"There are many attractive parts to this thriller - handsome leads, a meaty Patricia Highsmith plot, Mediterranean sunlight on cream linen suits" - Guardian

"The No. 1 greatest crime writer " - The Times

"An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel " - New York Times

"With fantastic pace and mounting tension the plot propels you into a nail-biting game of cat-and-mouse" - Daily Mail

"Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night" - New Yorker

"Suspenseful and evocative" - Stylist