James Lasdun is the author of Afternoon of a Faun, The Fall Guy, The Horned Man, Seven Lies, several poetry and short story collections, and a memoir. He lives in Brooklyn.
"Exceptionally entertaining. . . . The Fall Guy reads like
early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith. . . . This is exactly
what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift,
unsettling. [Lasdun] deserves to find more readers on these
shores."
*New York Times Book Review*
"Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so
graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail
and sly social observations."
*Wall Street Journal*
"Aptly described as the literary descendant of Dostoevsky and
Patricia Highsmith. . . . The Fall Guy is a twisty, chilly,
exquisitely written, and tautly suspenseful exploration of big
ideas in the guise of a psychological thriller."
*Boston Globe*
"Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A
compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal."
*Lionel Shriver - Financial Times*
"Expertly playing the noir card, Lasdun dissects the mercurial
relationships among a wealthy financier, his photographer wife and
an aimless cousin during a long hot summer in upstate New York.
There are plenty of lies and betrayals in this stylish thriller,
but it’s the slow burn of obsession that makes it sing."
*People*
"As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in
Lasdun’s combustible psychological thriller."
*Entertainment Weekly*
"Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same
time. . . a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has
been stalked."
*Seattle Review of Books*
"[A] terrific novel of suspense. . . Lasdun presents the inexorable
turnings of fate in a subtle and disconcerting way."
*Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)*
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