Name: The Dead Student
SKU: 49567104
Price: 14.71 EUR
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Author: Katzenbach, John
ISBN: 9780802125583

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Katzenbach

Publisher

Mysterious Press

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780802125583

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Dead Student "

Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for a drink. He immediately calls his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist who has become Moth's sponsor and father figure. Ed promises to meet him at an AA meeting later that day but never shows up. Knowing that his uncle is not the unreliable type, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene—his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. Deeply shaken, Moth calls 911; the police pronounce the death a suicide. Two words are scrawled across Ed's prescription pad: "My fault." But Moth refuses to believe that his uncle would take his own life. Devastated and confused, he calls on the only person he thinks he can trust: Andrea Martine, an ex-girlfriend he has not spoken to in four years who is struggling through her own trauma.Each battling their inner demons, Moth and Andy travel into dark, unfamiliar territory, intent on finding out the truth about Ed's death and circling ever closer to a devious mind that will flinch at nothing to achieve his own deadly goal. The Dead Student is a tense, penetrating novel from an unrivaled investigator of that most primal human motive—revenge.

John Katzenbach

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He is one of the most important authors of noir fiction in the world; many of his novels have been adapted into films and television. He also has a long career as a journalist covering judicial matters. Following the success of his novel The Analyst (over one and a half million copies sold), its sequel, Checkmate to the Analyst, is on the same track with more than 150,000 copies sold since its publication.

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