Those Who Walk Away

' The setting is Venice, the characterisation brilliant, the syle spare and superb' Daily Mail The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into an eerie game of cat-and-mouse - Coleman obsessed with vengeance and Ray determined to save his reputation, and himself. Each is at once the hunter and the hunted in a tense duel that, as each manages to walk away, draws them nearer to death.

About the author

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

Summary

Those Who Walk Away is a brilliant psychological thriller - a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the labyrinthine streets of Venice.

Report

Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights, moods of tension and malice, and an ending of brilliant ambiguity The Times

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Highsmith
• Assisted by: Joan Schenkar (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9780349004860
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00486-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 201 mm x 132 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Virago Press; Virago Modern Classics; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Thrillers / General, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Classic crime, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction