Patricks life strikes Robert as brazenly fabricated, yet soon he is compelled to pursue his own story.\r\n\r\nIn a twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man depicts an attempt to create art at the brink of empathy and imagination.
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A taut, subtle, postmodern literary thriller. SUNDAY TIMES\r\nA remarkable debut; an accomplished and intricately plotted story.-JON McGREGOR\r\nA Lonely Man is a delicate snare of a novel.-BRANDON TAYLOR\r\n A thrilling, unnerving novel. a page-turner with exacting syntax and emotional heft.-CATHERINE LACEY\r\n Impressively deft. A Lonely Man is a tense and taut work.-BENJAMIN MYERS\r\nA classy page-turner. MAIL ON SUNDAY\r\n\r\nRobert is a struggling writer living in Berlin with his wife and two young daughters. One night he meets Patrick, an enigmatic stranger with a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch - recently found hanged - who is now being followed. But is he really in danger? Patricks life strikes Robert as a fabrication, but one that comes to obsess him. He decides to use the other man, and his story.\r\n\r\nAn elegant and atmospheric twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is a novel of shadows, of the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth. As his association with Patrick hurtles towards tragedy, Robert must decide: are actual events the only things that give a story life, and are some stories too dangerous to tell?
