The Long Shadow by Mark Mills
Blood brothers or sworn enemies? You never forget what the fight was about... Ben Makepeace has barely thought of Jacob since school. What he remembers is a competitive, manipulative boy, impinging on his life like a cuckoo planted in a nest. Now Ben is the wrong side of forty with a young son to support and in need of a backer to bankroll his latest film script. A call to meet hedge-fund billionaire Victor Sheldon is promising, but there's a surprise in store - Victor is Jacob, now firmly entrenched in a gilded world of riches and glamour. History can cast a long shadow and while Ben believes his childhood is well over, he soon discovers the roots of the past dig deep, and some can't let it go.
Part psychological thriller, part mystery this [is a] stylish tale.. extremely readable * Sunday Mirror *
A clever, teasing hybrid of genres (psychological thriller, dark comedy, Pardoner's Tale and dystopia)...fraught with tensions about money, class and the super rich....This is a taught, gripping psychodrama and a wonderful twisted take on the 'wild divergences' of contemporary Britain * Spectator Magazine *
[T]he author's gift for an elegantly turned sentence is fully and generously in evidence * Express *
Mark Mills has shown that he is a writer of real psychological acuity - but there is one area he has made his own: the untrustworthiness of appearances, and the pitfalls for those who make no attempt to look beneath seductive, attractive surfaces...his most richly textured work yet * Independent *
I really enjoyed this book... The plot is excellent and as a reader we're not sure what is genuine and what is sabotage until near the end -- NewBooks Magazine
A master storyteller -- Val McDermid
A master of the art of murderous storytelling * The Sunday Times *
Clever, original, subtle and stylish * Observer *
A clever, teasing hybrid of genres (psychological thriller, dark comedy, Pardoner's Tale and dystopia)...fraught with tensions about money, class and the super rich....This is a taught, gripping psychodrama and a wonderful twisted take on the 'wild divergences' of contemporary Britain * Spectator Magazine *
[T]he author's gift for an elegantly turned sentence is fully and generously in evidence * Express *
Mark Mills has shown that he is a writer of real psychological acuity - but there is one area he has made his own: the untrustworthiness of appearances, and the pitfalls for those who make no attempt to look beneath seductive, attractive surfaces...his most richly textured work yet * Independent *
I really enjoyed this book... The plot is excellent and as a reader we're not sure what is genuine and what is sabotage until near the end -- NewBooks Magazine
A master storyteller -- Val McDermid
A master of the art of murderous storytelling * The Sunday Times *
Clever, original, subtle and stylish * Observer *
Mark Mills has lived in both Italy and France and has written for the screen. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780755392315 |
| ISBN 10 | 0755392310 |
| Title | The Long Shadow |
| Author | Mark Mills |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Headline Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2013-07-18 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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