From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn
Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense
Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as
a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go
missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold
of a new future.
And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of
events-- involving a bag of "jinxed" money, a suave American, a trunk
full of heroin, a hustler taxi driver, and a rich doctor's daughter--
that changes Robert's life forever.
Hunters in the Dark is a sophisticated game of cat and mouse redolent
of the nightmares of Patricia Highsmith, where identities are blurred,
greed trumps kindness, and karma is ruthless. Filled with Hitchcockian
twists and turns, suffused with the steamy heat and pervasive
superstition of the Cambodian jungle, and unafraid to confront difficult
questions about the machinations of fate, this is a masterful novel that
confirms Lawrence Osborne's reputation as one of our finest contemporary
writers.