The Destroyers

Resumen del libro

When Charlie and I were young, we played a game called Destroyers ...We were sharpening our instincts, jettisoning attachments. We were honing strategies for survival ...Ian Bledsoe is on the run, broke and humiliated, fleeing the emotional and financial fallout of his father's death. His childhood friend Charlie - rich, exuberant and basking in life on the Greek island of Patmos - is his last hope.

At first, Patmos is like a dream - sun-soaked days on Charlie's yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian's past - and Charlie readily offers the lifeline he desperately needs. But, like Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath. When he vanishes leaving behind his murky business affairs, Ian finds himself caught in a terrifying labyrinth of deceits.

As boys, the pair played a game called Destroyers - a game, he now realizes, they may never have stopped playing. Expansive, vivid and suspenseful, in the vein of Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, The Destroyers is a mesmerizing drama of power and fate, fathers and sons, self-invention and self-deception. 'Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You 'Superb, a tightly woven and fast-moving narrative set in beautifully crafted prose. A read-all-night book' Alan Furst, author of The Foreign Correspondent

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN es un escritor y crítico afincado en Nueva York. Especializado en temas culturales, ha trabajado como editor de publicaciones como x{0026}lt;i Vanity Fairx{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i V Magazinex{0026}lt;/i o la revista cofundada por Andy Warhol x{0026}lt;i Interview Magazinex{0026}lt;/i , y sus textos sobre arte y literatura han aparecido en medios como x{0026}lt;i The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i Artforumx{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i New York Magazinex{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i The Believerx{0026}lt;/i . Su cuarta novela, x{0026}lt;i Un crimen muy bellox{0026}lt;/i , ha sido saludada como uno de los mejores thrillers de 2020.x{0026}lt;/p