
The Destroyers
$27.96
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2018
Summary
The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and Graham Greene. - Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious Days
When Charlie and I were young, we played a game called Destroyers … We were sharpening our instincts, jettisoning attachments. We were honing strategies for survival …
Ian Bledsoe is on the run, broke and humiliated, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471136207 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1471136205 |
| Author: | Christopher Bollen |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Scribner UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 130mm x 198mm |

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’ The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller ; for all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and Graham Greene’
‘The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and Graham Greene’ – Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious Days
‘Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting’ – Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You
‘Superb, a tightly woven and fast-moving narrative set in beautifully crafted prose. A read-all-night book’ – Alan Furst, author of The Foreign Correspondent
‘Possessed of cold-blooded electricity and a beguiling elegance … A propulsive, hypnotic portrait of rot at paradise’s heart and of the sprawling, inescapable tendrils of class and avarice’ – Sophie McManus, author of The Unfortunates
‘One for those who like their holiday books dark’ * Stylist *
‘Beautiful people visiting glamorous places, being wicked enough to bring Patricia Highsmith to mind. It just isn’t summer without this kind of globe-trotting glamour to read about, especially when most of it is set in the Aegean’ * New York Times *
‘The ideal summer page-turner’ * Vogue *
‘Bollen’s deliciously dark literary thriller, set in the jewel-bright sun-soaked Greek island of Patmos, is the perfect summer read’ * Big Issue *
Christopher Bollen
Christopher Bollen is a writer who lives in New York City. He regularly writes about art, literature, and culture. He is the author of Lightning People and Orient and is currently the Editor at Large at Interview Magazine.
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