The Fall Guy

Engaging, effortlessly readable… Lasdun’s writing style is clean and straightforward. All the complexity resides in character and detail. This is masterfully controlled 2am noir. – Lionel Shriver * Financial Times *
What a sinister and searching novel this is – and what a delight. James Lasdun is one of our great writers. – Joseph O’Neill
Exceptionally entertaining…The Fall Guy reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith… Lasdun is masterly in his story’s construction… This is exactly what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift, unsettling. – Charles Finch * New York Times Book Review *
Nothing is straightforward in this slick, Highsmithian thriller, and while the damaged Matthew’s capacity for self-deception is flagged early, Lasdun’s skill lies not least in letting us think that we might therefore have his number. Wrong – and yet the novel’s denouement feels fated even as it smoothly steals the breath. – Stephanie Cross * Observer *
Impossible to put down. * Daily Mail *
A deftly constructed narratives of guilt and buried resentment – M. Harrison * Guardian *
Already drawing comparisons to Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train — but more aptly described as the literary descendant of Dostoyevsky and Patricia Highsmith in an alluring contemporary setting — 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 *

James Lasdun was born in London and lives in Brooklyn. His novels, memoir, poetry and short-story collections have won many awards, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, London Review of Books and The New Yorker, among others.

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