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  • Published: 15 January 2016
  • ISBN: 9780553392449
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $36.00

Killer, Come Hither

A novel



From the master observer of upper-crust New York life comes a sly, pacey international thriller ranging from the suites of an elite Manhattan law firm to the tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough and tumble western plains of Brazil.

A taut thriller that takes readers from the office suites of Manhattan to the tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough-and-tumble western plains of Brazil.
 
“Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher should enjoy Jack Dana’s adventures.”—Publishers Weekly
 
Jack Dana, a star student at Yale, joins the military after 9/11—only to have sniper fire cut short his career as a Marine Corps infantry officer. While recovering at Walter Reed Hospital, he begins to write a novel about his wartime experience. Jack’s uncle Harry, a surrogate father to him, as well as a partner at a leading New York law firm, helps Jack secure a publisher.
 
Jack is thrilled when his book becomes a huge success, but after a celebratory trip to South America, Jack returns home to shocking news: Uncle Harry is dead, found hanged in his summer home. Horrified and incredulous, Jack digs into the facts surrounding the tragedy and comes to believe that his uncle’s death was no suicide. Delays of law are not for Jack, so he takes matters into his own hands—embarking on a dangerous journey of justice and revenge.
 
Look for all of Louis Begley’s gripping Jack Dana thrillers:
KILLER, COME HITHER • KILL AND BE KILLED • KILLER’S CHOICE

  • Published: 15 January 2016
  • ISBN: 9780553392449
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $36.00

About the author

Louis Begley

LOUIS BEGLEY's previous novels are Schmidt Steps Back, Matters of Honor, Shipwreck, Schmidt Delivered, Mistler's Exit, About Schmidt, As Max Saw It, The Man Who Was Late, and Wartime Lies, which won the Hemingway/PEN award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His work has been translated into eighteen languages.

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Praise for Killer, Come Hither

Praise for Louis Begley:

  • "Among contemporary novelists, [Begley] may be the wryest, most devastating critic of class in American society." -- The Washington Post
  • "[Begley is] an elegant stylist with a dry wit and a merciless eye." -- The Wall Street Journal
  • "Begley knows everything about the secret lives of the Ameriacn aristocracy, and he tells all." -- Susan Cheever
  • "Begley, marvelously droll and a possessed of a rapier wit, revels in his mercurial characters, intricate psychological puzzles, unreliable memories, counterintuitive class divisions, and all the mysterious and miseries of lust and love." --Booklist