Strangers on a Train

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Product Description [Read by Bronson Pinchot]In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmiths perilous world -- where anybody is capable of murder. Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith's prolific career of noir fiction and proved her mastery of depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life. Review Strangers on a Train is a moral-vertigo thriller: Crime and Punishment for a post-atomic age.-- "Los Angeles Times"Strangers on a Train is filled with paranoia and anxiety, and through its twists and turns, we, like poor Guy Haines, are also drawn into psychopath Bruno's web.-- "Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestsellingauthor"A book that still has the power to shock seventy years later. That power comes through in Bronson Pinchot's narration. His voice conveys the requisite pitch of menace and malice, at once impulsive and premeditated, as well as the sly humor that was a characteristic of so much of Highsmith's fiction.-- "New York Times Book Review (audio review)"A moody and disturbing excavation of guilty paranoia.-- "Wall Street Journal"An incredible study of psychological torture and how fine the membrane is between normality and the underlying darkness.-- "Tana French, New York Times bestselling author"For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith.-- "Time"It is a truly gripping murder story. And yet, the psychological terror of the book is informed by the dual psychosis of its main characters.-- "New York Times Book Review" About the Author Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

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