The Adversary
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  • Published: 15 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784705800
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99

The Adversary

A True Story of Monstrous Deception

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A true story of monstrous deception, from France's greatest living writer – 'The story told here is beyond the imagination of even the best crime writer' Sunday Times


**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.

Discover the true story that is ‘beyond the imagination of even the best crime writer' (Sunday Times)

'A disturbing look at the dark side of human nature that is powerfully written and beautifully told' Louis Theroux

'Mesmerising' Sunday Telegraph

'Stunning' Evening Standard

'Unputdownable' Washington Post

'A masterpiece' New York Times
  • Published: 15 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9781784705800
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Emmanuel Carrère

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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