A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021
A Metro Book of the Year 2021
A Washington Post ''10 Best Thriller and Mystery Books of 2021''
-Gripping.- FINANCIAL TIMES
-A classy page-turner.- MAIL ON SUNDAY
''A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller.'' SUNDAY TIMES
When two men meet in a bookshop in Berlin they begin an uneasy friendship. Patrick has a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch recently found hanged, he says the people who killed his boss are now following him...
A twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is about the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth. As the two men-s association hurtles towards tragedy, Robert is forced to confront whether actual events are the only things that give a story life, and if some stories are too dangerous to tell-
-A remarkable debut; an accompl
