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The Cave

Tim Krabbé author Sam Garrett translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:14th Jan '02

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The Cave, a bestseller in Holland, is the new novel by the author of the novel and cult film The Vanishing

It takes a journey into the heart of darkness to discover the light - another thrilling novel by the author of The VanishingRespectable geologist Egon Wagter has always found the amoral Axel van de Graaf's charisma difficult to resist. But from their first meeting as adolescents on a field trip to Belgium, when three lives became inextricably linked in the caves of La Roche, he has never yet allowed himself to be drawn into his friend's criminal life. Instead he has kept his independence, preferring to learn about Axel's exploits as a drug baron from the papers. Now his life as a family man is in tatters and the escape route offered by an expedition to South America lacks only $40,000 to become a reality. So here he is, far from home in a South East Asian country where the penalty for running drugs is death, running drugs for Axel, but maybe also on the brink of finally understanding the secret of the cave and the love that might have been.

'Krabbe's carefully constructed narrative has a geometry so precise that the patterns buried under the surface emerge only in the final pages' New York Times 'Full of beautiful coincidences, epiphanies, turning points and roads not taken' Los Angeles Times

ISBN: 9780747556237

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 189g

224 pages

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