The Destroyers (eBook, ePUB)
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An Esquire Best Book of the Year • A Paste Best Novel of the YearRecommended by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Vogue, Paste, New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Yahoo!, Refinery29, BBC, PopSugar, Boston Herald, New York Social Diary, Library Journal, Bookstr, KirkusA seductive and richly atmospheric literary thriller with a sleek Patricia Highsmith surface." New York Times Book Review"Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting." Garth Greenwell, auth...
An Esquire Best Book of the Year • A Paste Best Novel of the Year
Recommended by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Vogue, Paste, New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Yahoo!, Refinery29, BBC, PopSugar, Boston Herald, New York Social Diary, Library Journal, Bookstr, Kirkus
A seductive and richly atmospheric literary thriller with a sleek Patricia Highsmith surface." New York Times Book Review
"Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting." Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You
Superb. . . . A read-all-night of a book. Alan Furst, author of A Hero of France
Arriving on the stunning Greek island of Patmos, Ian Bledsoe is broke, humiliated, and fleeing the fallout from his father's death. His childhood friend Charlierich, exuberant, and basking in the success of his new venture on the islandcould be his last hope.
At first Patmos appears to be a dreamlong, sun-soaked days on Charlie's yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian's pastand Charlie readily offers Ian the lifeline he so desperately needs. But, like Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath, and it isn't long before the dream begins to fragment. When Charlie suddenly vanishes, Ian finds himself caught up in deception after deception. As he grapples with the turmoil left in his friend's wake, he is reminded of an imaginary game called Destroyers they invented as childrena game, he now realizes, they may have never stopped playing.
Recommended by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Vogue, Paste, New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Yahoo!, Refinery29, BBC, PopSugar, Boston Herald, New York Social Diary, Library Journal, Bookstr, Kirkus
A seductive and richly atmospheric literary thriller with a sleek Patricia Highsmith surface." New York Times Book Review
"Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting." Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You
Superb. . . . A read-all-night of a book. Alan Furst, author of A Hero of France
Arriving on the stunning Greek island of Patmos, Ian Bledsoe is broke, humiliated, and fleeing the fallout from his father's death. His childhood friend Charlierich, exuberant, and basking in the success of his new venture on the islandcould be his last hope.
At first Patmos appears to be a dreamlong, sun-soaked days on Charlie's yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian's pastand Charlie readily offers Ian the lifeline he so desperately needs. But, like Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath, and it isn't long before the dream begins to fragment. When Charlie suddenly vanishes, Ian finds himself caught up in deception after deception. As he grapples with the turmoil left in his friend's wake, he is reminded of an imaginary game called Destroyers they invented as childrena game, he now realizes, they may have never stopped playing.
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