BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY INTRODUCED BY
DENISE MINA 'Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the
best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM A
gripping novel that explores the shifting sands of moral values -
is murder still murder when committed in a lawless place? Howard
Ingham, an American writer, is in Tunisia working on a screenplay,
and feeling stranded. No one has written to him since he arrived -
neither the film director who he is supposed to be meeting in
Tunis, nor his lover in New York. The erratic mail eventually
brings news of the director's suicide. For reasons obscure even to
himself, Ingham decides to stay and work on a novel, but a series
of events - a hushed-up murder and a vanished corpse - lures him
inexorably into the deep, ambivalent shadows of the town; into
deceit and away from conventional morality. Ultimately, what is in
question is not justice or truth, but the state of his oddly quiet
conscience. 'Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear
. . . Highsmith's finest novel to my mind is The Tremor of Forgery,
and if I were asked what it is about I would reply, "apprehension"'
GRAHAM GREENE
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