Power Chris - A Lonely Man A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A Lonely Man is a superb suspense novel imbued with moral and narrative complexity and an omnipresent low cloud cover of dread. The Washington Post Two British men both writers meet by chance in Berlin. Robert is trying and failing to finish his next book while balancing his responsibilities as a husband and a father. Patrick a recent arrival in the city is secretive about his past but eventually reveals that he has been ghostwriting the autobiography of a Russian oligarch. The oligarch has turned up dead and Patrick claims to be a hunted man himself. Although Robert doubts the truth of Patrick's story it fascinates him and he thinks it might hold the key to his own foundering novel. Working to gain the other man's trust Robert draws out the details of Patrick's past while ensnaring himself ever more tightly in what might be either a fantasist's creation or a lethal international plot. Through an elegant existential game of cat and mouse Chris Power's A Lonely Man depicts an attempt to create art at the cost of empathy. Robert must decide what is his for the taking and whether some stories are too dangerous to tell.
Title: A Lonely Man A Novel
Author(s): Power Chris
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250849090
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/3/2022
Category: Thriller / Suspense