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Emmanuel Carrere
The Adversary
Published January 2001 by Bloomsbury at £15.99
ISBN: 0747551898
The shocking true story of a respectable doctor, 18 years of lies, and five murders, this book reveals the extremes to which ordinary people can go.
'What a chilling performance. As a writer, Carrere is straight beserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize that he's got a hold on you when you attempt to pull away. I tried to break free but it was damn near impossible. You say: True crime and literature? I don't believe it. I say: Believe it.' Junot Diaz, author of Drown
'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.' The Adversary is the shocking true story of a respectable doctor, 18 years of lies, and five murders. Who could have imagined Romand as a murderer? He was, after all, a noted doctor at the World Health Organisation, a groundbreaking rescarcher with connections to international humanitarian figures, a financial wizard entrusted with his in-laws' life savings, a loving son who called his parents every evening to say good night. If there was a problem, no one knew it. As it turned out, there were many: Romand had no medical degree; he had no job; he knew no influential contacts; he had spent his in-laws' money. An when a relative went to break the terrible news of the murder of his wife and children to Romand's parents, they too were dead - murdered by the stranger who had been their son.
Liza Cody
Gimme More
Pbk published March 2001 by Bloomsbury at £6.99
ISBN: 0747552088Once she was the face that launched a thousand hits. Now Birdie Walker - rock widow and con-woman - is scratching at the dark heart of the music industry. Twenty years ago Birdie and her rockstar lover, Jack, were the most famous couple alive, but it is a past she can no longer live up to.
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Colin Harrison
Manhattan Nocturne
Pbk published January 2001 by Bloomsbury at £6.99
ISBN: 0747552819Porter Wren, a columnist for a New York City tabloid, finds the precarious balance of his life threatened by a woman who comes out of the Manhattan night to lure him with a promise he can't resist: a chance to see ever deeper into the dark heart of the city he is compelled to know.
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Colin Harrison
Afterburn
Pbk published January 2001 by Bloomsbury at £6.99
ISBN: 0747548285Businessman Charlie Ravich is a survivor whose experience as a POW has more than prepared him for the world of global commerce. Now in his late 50s, Charlie is about to make his greatest speculation yet. Enter Christina, a voluptuous Ivy League dropout, whose past is about to catch up with her.
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Peter Miller
Bleak Midwinter
Published January 2001 by Bloomsbury at £9.99
ISBN: 0747548358
Two weeks before Christmas, Dr Rajiv Mahendra encounters a patient with rare symptoms that are sinisterly familiar. In India, the disease is known as bubonic plague, and the last time it occurred in Europe, it was known as the Black Death. A thriller from the author of "Stealing Thunder."
