The Impostors: A Novel - Softcover

Balding, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935830627 ISBN 13: 9781935830627

Publisher: Upper West Side Philosophers, Incorporated, 2019

Synopsis

Wealthy London banker Ronald Chapman is found dead - a suicide, apparently, though the police are still on the case. Janet, his beautiful widow and sole heir to their fortune, finally freed from her loveless marriage, turns to her beloved Shakespeare for solace: "After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well; nothing can touch him further." As she awaits the release of Ronald's body for burial, there are arrangements to be made and appearances to uphold. She has only one problem: Ronald's best friend, who is expected by family and friends to speak at the funeral ... doesn't actually exist. Can the Extra! agency - specialists in the rental of fake hecklers, phony cuckolds, inexistent relatives, sham boyfriends, and counterfeit job candidates - help? Extra!'s boss, Mike Fielding, is ready for anything that's more or less within the law and might be approved by his alter ego, private-eye Philip Marlowe. The job falls on failed actor Will Power, who is buffeted between the dull reality of his own life and the exciting, romantic world of make-believe in this wicked comedy of deceit, treachery and love.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in 1954 in London of mixed Scottish and English parentage, Timothy Balding grew up and was educated on a British military base in Germany. He left school and his family at the age of sixteen to return alone to the United Kingdom, where he was hired as a reporter on local newspapers in Reading in the county of Berkshire. For the ensuing decade, he worked on local and regional titles and then at Press Association, the national news agency, covering politics in Westminster, the British Parliament. He exiled himself to Paris, France, in 1980, and spent the next thirty years working for international, non-governmental organizations. For twenty-five of these, he was Chief Executive Officer of the World Association of Newspapers, the representative global group of media publishers and editors, established after World War II to defend the freedom and independence of the press worldwide. A Knight (First Class) in the Order of the White Rose of Finland--an honor accorded him by Nobel Peace laureate Martti Ahtisaari, former Finnish President--Timothy Balding currently lives in France and devotes himself to writing. His books include THE IMPOSTORS: A NOVEL and HOMO CONSCIUS: A NOVEL.

About this edition

• Publisher: Upper West Side Philosophers, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1935830627
• ISBN 13: 9781935830627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210