The Adversary

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<p><b>Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in<i>The Times</i></b><b></b> <b>THE<i>SUNDAY TIMES</i>BESTSELLER</b> <b></b> <b>ON THE SATURDAY MORNING OF JANUARY 9, 1993, WHILE JEAN CLAUDE ROMAND WAS KILLING HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN, I WAS WITH MINE IN A PARENT-TEACHER MEETING...</b></p><p>With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.</p><p>'As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize the hold he's got on you when you attempt to pull away... You say: True crime and literature? I don't believe it. I say: Believe it' Junot Díaz</p><p>'Mesmerising'<i>Sunday Telegraph</i> 'Stunning'<i>Evening Standard</i> 'Unputdownable'<i>Washington Post</i> 'A masterpiece'<i>New York Times</i></p>

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Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of<i>The Adversary</i>(a<i>Sunday Times</i>bestseller and<i>New York Times</i>Notable Book, translated into twenty-three languages),<i>Lives Other Than My Own</i>,<i>My Life as a Russian Novel</i>,<i>Class Trip</i>,<i>Limonov</i>(winner of the 2011 Prix Renaudot),<i>The Mustache</i>and, most recently,<i>The Kingdom</i>.

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