'The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for
all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and
Graham Greene' Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious Days When
Charlie and I were young, we played a game called Destroyers . . .
We were sharpening our instincts, jettisoning attachments. We were
honing strategies for survival ... Ian Bledsoe is on the run, broke
and humiliated, fleeing the emotional and financial fallout of his
father's death. His childhood friend Charlie - rich, exuberant and
basking in life on the Greek island of Patmos - is his last hope.
At first, Patmos is like a dream - sun-soaked days on Charlie's
yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian's past - and
Charlie readily offers the lifeline he desperately needs. But, like
Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath.
When he vanishes leaving behind his murky business affairs, Ian
finds himself caught in a terrifying labyrinth of deceits. As boys,
the pair played a game called Destroyers - a game, he now realizes,
they may never have stopped playing. Expansive, vivid and
suspenseful, in the vein of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, The
Destroyers is a mesmerizing drama of power and fate, fathers and
sons, self-invention and self-deception. 'Equal parts Graham
Greene, Patricia Highsmith and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers
is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting' Garth
Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You 'The Destroyers manages to
be both fast-paced and contemplative, an excellent entertainment
and also something more lasting, a haunting meditation on
friendship and desperation' Guardian, Best Holiday Reads of 2017
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