Dirty Tricks

A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was "market-led," Dirty Tricks is pure entertainment from one of the most inventive writers around.

When the nameless narrator embarks upon an affair with Karen, a seemingly vapid P.E. teacher married to a boring accountant, he does not know her fetish is for adultery while her husband is in the room or loitering nearby. But once he finds out, he doesn't care. He has been abroad for twenty years, and since his return to merry old England he's been startlingly uninhibited by morals or a conscience. Which is not only why he eventually gets involved with blackmail, a kidnapping, and two murders, but also how, with hilariously syllogistic logic, he's able to justify his role in all of it.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 07/08/2003
ISBN: 9780375700095
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.07h x 5.30w x 0.59d

Review Citations: Library Journal 09/01/2003 pg. 215
Library Journal 08/01/2003