The Woman In The Fifth - Couverture rigide

Kennedy, D

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0091799546 ISBN 13 : 9780091799540

Editeur : Hutchinson, 2007

Synopsis

Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has cost him his job, his marriage and his relationship with his only child. And when the ensuing scandal threatens to completely destroy him, he votes with his feet and flees...to Paris. He arrives in the French capital in the bleak midwinter, where a series of accidental encounters lands him in a grubby room in a grubby quarter, and a job as a nightwatchman for a sinister operation. Just when Harry begins to think that he has hit rock bottom, romance enters his life. Her name is Margit - an elegant, cultivated Hungarian emigre, long resident in Paris - widowed and, like Harry, alone. But though Harry is soon smitten with her, Margit keeps her distance. She will only see him at her apartment in the fifth arrondissement for a few hours twice a week, and remains guarded about her work, her past, her life. However, Harry's frustrations with her reticence are soon overshadowed by a ever-growing preoccupation that a dark force is at work in his life - as punishment begins to be meted out to anyone who has recently done him wrong. Before he knows it, he finds himself of increasing interest to the police and waking up in a nightmare from which there is no easy escape.

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À propos de l'auteur

Douglas Kennedy: Douglas Kennedy's novels – The Dead Heart, The Big Picture, The Job, The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, State of the Union and Temptation – have all been highly praised bestsellers. He is also the author of three acclaimed travel books: Beyond the Pyramids, In God's Country and Chasing Mammon. His work has been translated into sixteen languages. In 2006 he received the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Born in Manhattan in 1955, he lives in London with his wife and two children.

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Praise for TEMPTATION

Kennedy is a clever learned writer, with a beguiling lightness of touch The Times

A racy page-turner, peppered with moral dilemmas Kennedy has a knack of bringing his characters to life and sitting them right down next to you Daily Express

This is Kennedy at his brilliant best Daily Mirror

Kennedy is a male writer who really speaks to women and gives us eloquent insights into the mysteries of men' Cosmopolitan

'A finger-scorching page-turner' Daily Mail

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hutchinson
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0091799546
• ISBN 13: 9780091799540
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible