![]() ![]() As readers of James Lasdun’s acclaimed fiction can expect, The Fall Guy is a complex moral tale as well as a gripping suspense story, probing questions of guilt and betrayal with ruthless incisiveness. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. ![]() Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. ‘Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller… A compulsively readable tale of money, power and betrayal.’ - Rebecca Rose, Financial Times Summer Books of 2017 In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge. ‘You could not go wrong with James Lasdun’s The Fall Guy, a riveting psychological thriller’ - Lionel Shriver, Guardian Books of the Year.
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