Dimensions
128 x 197 x 24mm
You could meet him today: the man who wants your life. He'll take it, literally: kill you and live your life better than you ever could. He's learned with chilling ease how to find the rich, comfortable lives that nobody will miss - at least, not for a while.
In Michael Pye's brilliant literary thriller, such a man kills - and then retreats to the peace of the Portuguese forest, menacing the hearts and lives of people who cannot know what he truly is: the local lawyer, a woman relishing her first chance to bring an erotic kind of drama into her provincial world, and the museum official sent to track him down, who has his own reasons for wanting to make a new life.
Their exhilarating, terrifying game of death, sex and fantasy seem to end on an apocalyptic night of fire. But for the survivors, the horror has only just begun . . .
