The Two Faces of January

By: Patricia Highsmith

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Now a major motion picture starring Viggo Mortenson and Kirsten Dunst

Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined.

Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley.

©1964 Patricia Highsmith (P)2014 Isis Publishing Ltd

Critic reviews

"An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel." (The New York Times)

"Shifts of ground stand metaphor for shifts in relationship; psychology is beautifully interleaved with a gritty genius loci" (Library Journal)

"Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense." (Mark Billingham)

Boring, superficial, artificial

Would you try another book from Patricia Highsmith and/or Christopher Ragland?

No

What could Patricia Highsmith have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Be a proper writer

What didn’t you like about Christopher Ragland’s performance?

Not really

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Two Faces of January?

All

Any additional comments?

I'd love to return this book, but you won't let me...