Emmanuel Carrère is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter and film director. He is the award-winning, internationally renowned author of fifteen books, including My Life as a Russain Novel, Limonov, The Kingdom, 97,196 Words, Yoga and the Sunday Times bestselling The Adversary.
A disturbing look at the dark side of human nature that is
powerfully written and beautifully told
*Louis Theroux*
The story told here is truly beyond the imagination for even the
best crime writer
*Sunday Times*
The mesmerizing true crime tale of an apparently ordinary man whose
life mutates in the space of a few blood-splattering hours from the
realm of Renoir to that of Stephen King
*People*
He’s the best kind of writer, not just a bestseller but a man who
is not afraid to leave the comfort zone of his desk, go out into
the world, take risks, and get his shoes dirty
*Observer*
Unputdownable... Imagine a sleek, twenty-first century version of
In Cold Blood
*Washington Post*
A triumph of insight and concision, brilliant both as a
psychological study and as the portrayal of a community
*Independent on Sunday*
A masterpiece... It's a level of moral discomfort almost without
equal in literature
*New York Times*
Savagely intense and utterly compelling... This is his paciest and
cleanest-cut book...few books could better deserve a second chance
to find new readers
*Sunday Times*
The Adversary is exactly the idea I have of a modern novel:
struggling deftly with facts and with itself
An absolutely stunning piece of work, totally involving and
unforgettable
*Evening Standard*
This is the sort of story I dreamed of covering when I was a
journalist. The sort of story for which the phrase You couldn’t
make it up was invented. The Adversary takes a deep, mesmerising
dive into the darkness of a human soul. There were moments when I
truly could not believe what I was reading. But unlike other serial
killer noirs sitting on my shelves, this horror is real. And so
much more chilling for that.
[A] book that fairly struck me over the head was The Adversary…
it’s the coexistence of almost unimaginably variant realities
within a family that haunts you.
*New Statesman, *Books of the Year**
A remarkably thoughtful and unnerving book...mesmerising
*Sunday Telegraph*
Profoundly disturbing...a remarkable and undoubtedly important book
- perhaps even a necessary one
*Daily Express*
A fascinating meditation on Jean-Claude Romand and what his bizarre
life might mean... Carrère's inquiry is highly personal, written in
lucid prose...the narrative is often mesmerizing, and revealing
about the fragility of human relationships
*New York Times*
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