Hardback: 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 to Cambodia, 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, Hunters In The Dark (2015) 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.
About the author: Lawrence Osborne was born in England and educated at Cambridge and Harvard, where he studied modern languages. He then lived in Paris for ten years, where he wrote his first novel Ania Malina (1987) and, later, the travelogue Paris Dreambook (1990). Subsequently, he has lived a nomadic life, moving to New York City and then to Mexico, Istanbul and Bangkok, where he currently resides.
Status: Unread/To-Be-Read
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