The Dismantling

Praise for The Dismantling:
"With its high tension plot and atmosphere of unease, The Dismantling is a morally ambiguous thriller in the grand tradition of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith. It has smart things to say about memory, redemption, and what it's like to live in a world where everything is for sale, but it says them by telling a gripping story." --Christopher Beha, author of Arts & Entertainments

"While this is a fast-paced, engaging thriller, it is also much, much more. It is, at its heart, a fully and tenderly rendered exploration of loss and shame and the deep yearning for some manner of redemption. It is about the difficult choices put before us--and that might very well damn us--when possible redemption is close at hand." --Thomas O'Malley, author of This Magnificent Desolation Praise for Brian DeLeeuw's In this Way I Was Saved: "Elegant, unsettling and wildly original, In This Way I Was Saved reads like a coming-of-age-story with the heart of a nasty thriller." --Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Gone Girl "Terrifying and terrifyingly good." --Vanity Fair "Haunting and persuasive." --Los Angeles Times "Spellbinding." --Publishers Weekly
"Original, subversive, funny, twisted, and totally engrossing, In This Way I Was Saved is a mind-bending tour de force. I read the last page, flipped back to the beginning, and immediately started again." --Chelsea Cain, New York Timesbestselling author of Heartsick and Sweetheart "In This Way I Was Saved gave me chills, not only for its dead-on depiction of the searing loneliness of a hermetically sealed mind, but because it is so thrillingly well-executed. A superb first novel" --Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner award-winning author of The Great Man and Blue Plate Special "[W]ill keep you guessing right until the book reaches its inevitable conclusion. I haven't been this entertained by a debut novel in years." --Dale Peck, author of Drift House "In this Way I Was Saved is a frightening, gripping tale about a sadistic secret sharer, a shadow self who is ready to devour its host. This is one of the most fascinating and controlled first novels I've ever read--a sustained performance that hypnotizes and terrifies the reader." --Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story "In this original, inventive debut, Brian DeLeeuw delivers a suspenseful and surprisingly tender psychological thriller that gives shape to the torment of isolation." --Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life "A story of friendship and betrayal, violence, madness, lust, and power that will keep you guessing until the very last page--and leave you gasping for air." --BookPage "Riveting ... suspenseful and terrifying." --Library Journal "Mysterious, psychologically, craggy, and highly readable." --Time Out New York "Creepily compelling." --Daily Mail (UK) "DeLeeuw's precise, vivid prose has that visceral power of both a successful psychological thriller and a gripping ghost story." --The Daily Telegraph (UK)