The Adversary

Author Emmanuel Carrère
Narrator Joseph Kloska
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 12 October 2017
Run Time 4 hours and 53 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Literary essays, True crime.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH

ON THE SATURDAY MORNING OF JANUARY 9, 1993, WHILE JEAN CLAUDE ROMAND WAS KILLING HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN, I WAS WITH MINE IN A PARENT-TEACHER MEETING...

With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.

'As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize the hold he's got on you when you attempt to pull away... You say: True crime and literature? I don't believe it. I say: Believe it' Junot Díaz

'Mesmerising' Sunday Telegraph
'Stunning' Evening Standard
'Unputdownable' Washington Post
'A masterpiece' New York Times

Critics Review

A disturbing look at the dark side of human nature that is powerfully written and beautifully told

Louis Theroux

The story told here is truly beyond the imagination for even the best crime writer

Sunday Times

The mesmerizing true crime tale of an apparently ordinary man whose life mutates in the space of a few blood-splattering hours from the realm of Renoir to that of Stephen King

People

He's the best kind of writer, not just a bestseller but a man who is not afraid to leave the comfort zone of his desk, go out into the world, take risks, and get his shoes dirty

Observer

Unputdownable... Imagine a sleek, twenty-first century version of In Cold Blood

Washington Post

A triumph of insight and concision, brilliant both as a psychological study and as the portrayal of a community

Independent on Sunday

A masterpiece... It's a level of moral discomfort almost without equal in literature

New York Times

Savagely intense and utterly compelling... This is his paciest and cleanest-cut book...few books could better deserve a second chance to find new readers

Sunday Times

The Adversary is exactly the idea I have of a modern novel: struggling deftly with facts and with itself

An absolutely stunning piece of work, totally involving and unforgettable

Evening Standard

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