The Crime of Julian Wells - Hardcover

Cook, Thomas H

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802126030 ISBN 13: 9780802126030

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012

Synopsis

With THE CRIME OF JULIAN WELLS, Thomas H. Cook, one of America's most acclaimed suspense writers, has written a novel in the grand tradition of the twisty, cerebral thriller. Like Eric Ambler's A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS and Graham Greene's THE THIRD MAN, it is a mystery of identity, or assumed identity, a journey into the maze of a mysterious life. When famed true-crime writer Julian Wells' body if found in a boat drifting on a Montauk pond, the question is not how he died, but why? The death is obviously a suicide. But why would Julian Wells have taken his own life? And was this his only crime? These are the questions that first intrigue and then obsess Philip Anders, Wells' best friend and the chief defender of both his moral and his literary legacies. Anders' increasingly passionate and dangerous quest to answer these questions becomes a journey into a haunted life, one marked by travel, learning, achievement and adventure, a life that should have been celebrated, but whose lonely end points to terrors still unknown. Spanning four decades and traversing three continents, THE CRIME OF JULIAN WELLS is a journey into one man's heart of darkness than ends in a blaze of light.

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Review

"A striking example of a suspense writer working at the top of his form." --Los Angeles Times "[A]n intelligent and elegant work." --The Wall Street Journal

About the Author

Thomas H. Cook won an Edgar award for his novel The Chatham School Affair and has been shortlisted for the award six times, most recently with Red Leaves, which was also shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie Gold Dagger award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0802126030
• ISBN 13: 9780802126030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288