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The classic thriller behind the Hitchcock film, and Highsmith’s first novel – soon to be remade by David Fincher, director of Gone Girl, with a screenplay by Gillian Flynn.
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .
‘Bruno slammed his palms together. “Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?”’
From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.
‘The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer’ The Times
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .
‘Bruno slammed his palms together. “Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?”’
From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.
‘The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer’ The Times
Reviews
A tightly-plotted psychological thriller that serves as a masterclass in how it's done
