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Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in The Times
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

ON 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

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"This is the sort of story I dreamed of covering when I was a journalist. The sort of story for which the phrase You couldn´t make it up was invented. The Adversary takes a deep, mesmerising dive into the darkness of a human soul. There were moments when I truly could not believe what I was reading. But unlike other serial killer noirs sitting on my shelves, this horror is real. And so much more chilling for that." Fiona Barton, author of The Widow

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Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary (a Sunday Times bestseller and New York Times Notable Book, translated into twenty-three languages), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life as a Russian Novel, Class Trip, Limonov (winner of the 2011 Prix Renaudot), The Mustache and, most recently, The Kingdom.

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