Description
Roger Damon is at the peak of his career. Successful and attractive, he is a well-liked and respected literary agent with an adorable wife, a circle of engaging friends and a healthy bank balance. Nothing it seems could disturb the balance of such an ordered life.
It takes one telephone call. In the dead of night a strange voice cuts through the darkness – a voice full of menace and loathing. Abruptly Damon’s confidence is shattered. Jolted from his trance of happiness he sees with a terrible clarity the frailty of all his certainties about himself.
An old friend dies suddenly. Then he hears that a woman he once knew well has been killed. And all the while the threatening calls continue. Roger Damon fells besieged. Money and charm do not offer immortality; the strain tells.
In a novel of great depth and compassion, Irwin Shaw shows an honest man coming adrift – but surviving in the end with his sense of values tested by fire. It is a story of remarkable perspicacity that resonates around the imagination long after completion and makes every reader question what in life really matters.
Hardcover, 271 pages. In good pre-loved condition with the exception of a minor tear to dustcover.