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Strangers on a Train

Patricia Highsmith author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:12th Aug '99

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The classic thriller behind the Hitchcock film - soon to be remade by David Fincher, director of Gone Girl

The psychologists would call it folie a deux...

'Bruno slammed his palms together. We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Catch?''

From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.

The psychologists would call it folie a deux...

'Bruno slammed his palms together. 'Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?''

From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.

A gem... A magnificent suspense * Daily Mail *
A writer who created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger -- Graham Greene
A true original in crime fiction and a superb writer * The Times *

ISBN: 9780099283072

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm

Weight: 192g

272 pages