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The Two Faces of January
bookshelves: published-1964, mystery-thriller, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, winter-20122013, tbr-busting-2013, under-500-ratings, greece
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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.
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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
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