A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HELEN MIRREN AND IAN MCKELLEN This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to pull off the final coup of his career. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings. But who is the man behind the con and what has he had to do to survive this life of lies? And why is this beautiful woman so willing to be his next victim? ______________________________________________ ‘You will have your socks knocked, nay, blown off’ Stylist ‘An assured thriller in the footsteps of le Carr, Highsmith and Rendell’ Guardian ‘A part-thriller, part-human condition novel that packs a tremendous punch’ Financial Times