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Jean-Jacques Fiechter goes deep into the Psychology of Revenge. It is fascinating to see how the Characters take Shape and Volume as the Plot evolves. A Movie has been made, based on this Book, but the Book is a lot better.

Another diabolical narrator. The author uses brilliant irony and jolting powers of description to make a darkly funny masterpiece. A+.

This novel will keep you thinking. The characters are regular people, with their own lifes, feelings and passions. The plot is just very good and he does not use any tricks to captivate you. Is a book to enjoy for a couple of hours and think about it for a long time.

I read this mystery in two hours. You are taken places you have never been, the prose is perfect, the story grips you. A reason to bid the video store farewell!

Fiechter's book won the prestigious Grand Prize for Detective Fiction in France--and with good cause. He's a natural-born storyteller whose masterly use of wit and irony, creative plotting, and compelling style will keep readers entertained and bemused. Sir Edward Destry, one of England's most successful publishers, has labored for years in the shadow of his glamorous, charismatic, successful friend, Nicolas Fabry. A former diplomat turned best-selling author, Fabry has just won the French Prix Goncourt for his new book, and Edward is consumed with jealousy and rage. All his life, he's covered for Fabry, playing father to Fabry's abandoned son, consoling the hundreds of women Fabry has ruined, and even editing Fabry's banal, cliché-ridden writing. But Edward doesn't really care about past injustices. What's really got him in a fury is that the plot of the award-winning book reveals that Fabry stole Edward's first and only true love and then destroyed her. Betrayed, wounded, and filled with rage, Edward plots a revenge that is so cunning, so lethal, so cruel, that even he can't predict the final shocking result. Highly recommended. Emily Melton Copyright© 1995, American Library Association. All rights reserved

Jean-Jacques Fiechter goes deep into the Psychology of Revenge. It is fascinating to see how the Characters take Shape and Volume as the Plot evolves. A Movie has been made, based on this Book, but the Book is a lot better.