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The Two Faces of January

The Two Faces of January - Patricia Highsmith

bookshelves: published-1964, mystery-thriller, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, winter-20122013, tbr-busting-2013, under-500-ratings, greece

Read from January 21 to 23, 2013




My paperback is unavailable here:

9 780099 448402
Arrow Books Ltd, London
1986

Opening: At half past three of a morning in early January, Chester MacFarland was awakened in his berth on the San Gimignano by an alarming sound of scraping.

#26 TBR Busting 2013

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CR The Two Faces of january

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Three of them are waiting. Rydal Keener is waiting for something exciting to happen in his grubby little Athens hotel.

At forty-odd, Chester MacFarland has been waiting much longer, expecting his life of stock manipu­lation and fraud to catch up with him. And Colette, Chester's wife, is waiting for something altogether different.

After a nasty little incident in the hotel, they all wait together. As the stakes, and the tension, in their three-cornered waiting game mount, they learn that while passports and silence can be bought, other things can cost as much as your life