Summary
In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston’s supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull.
Houston is the world’s most successful novelist, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of best-selling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of his books.
And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782065807 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1782065806 |
| Author: | Philip Kerr |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 204mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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‘This clever thriller is packed with sardonic one-liners and ribald humour’ Sunday Mirror .
A quirky Hitchcockian fable that pokes savage fun at publishers, the book trade and the business of authorship * Spectator *This clever thriller is packed with sardonic one-liners and ribald humour * Sunday Mirror *‘A quirky Hitchcockian fable that pokes savage fun at publishers, the book trade and the business of authorship’ Andrew Taylor, Spectator Books of the Year. * Spectator *‘This clever thriller is packed with sardonic one-liners and ribald humour’ Sunday Mirror. * Sunday Mirror *
About The Author
Philip Kerr
Philip Kerr is the author of nine acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels. If The Dead Rise Not won the 2009 CWA Ellis Peters Award for Best Historical Crime Novel. Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh and now lives in London.
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