Hunters in the Dark
A Suspense, Literary Fiction, Fiction book. This book is about a man called Robert, on an extended trip to...
Adrift in Cambodia, Robert Grieve – pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher – decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future.And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events involving a bag of ‘jinxed’ money, a suave American, a corrupt policeman and a rich doctor’s daughter, in which Robert’s life is changed forever.Alive with malice and grace, this is a taut tale reminiscent of the nightmares of Patricia Highsmith: a story of double identities, and innocence in the midst of evil, from a master of atmosphere and observation.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 352 pages
- ISBN: 9781781090336 / 0
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Grateful to have discovered this extraordinary writer... reminds me a bit of Graham Greene, but of course he charts his own course -- in this case, in Cambodia. This is a terrific read and I've ordered two more of Osborne's novels. Have to catch up. This book is about a man called Robert, on an extended trip to Cambodia, who - against the warnings of his guide - goes off with an American called Simon. My guess was that there would be some sort of unpleasant consequence, and after an evening playing cards with Simon, Robert wakes up to find himself being taken away in a boat, and... An English teacher in his late twenties, Robert escapes every summer from rural Sussex, which some people might consider a pleasant prison, to drift ever further afield. Having found Iceland and Greece remarkably similar which suggests a certain ignorance or lack of observation on his part, Robert finds himself in Cambodia, having crossed...
