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    The Two Faces of January

    Patricia Highsmith

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    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING VIGGO MORTENSON AND KIRSTEN DUNST

    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.

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    Praise for The Two Faces of January

    • Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense - Mark Billingham

    • The No. 1 greatest crime writer - The Times

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

    • I'm a huge fan - Sarah Waters

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

    • Suspenseful and evocative - Stylist

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    Patricia Highsmith

    Patricia Highsmith

    Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

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