A01=Jonathan Smith
Author_Jonathan Smith
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Product details
- ISBN 9780349118932
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jul 2005
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Someone has stolen Patrick Balfour's identity. A successful headmaster of a London school, a regular broadcaster and a writer of historical novels, as well as having a fairly spicy private life, Balfour is the object of some unsurprising envy. Yet who would be so malicious as to commit identity fraud and frame Patrick as a thief and a paedophile, using his national insurance number and impersonating his handwriting? As Patrick is teased by a series of letters, it becomes apparent that his adversary is certainly better-read than him and he is sent off on a tense literary chase, picking up clues from Kafka's The Trial to R L Stevenson and to Joseph Clark, a 17th Century contortionist. Patrick's morale begins to collapse - the police don't believe him and his daughter rejects him. Desperate, he decides he must pursue his pursuer.
Jonathan Smith is the author of SUMMER IN FEBRUARY (published by Abacus) and THE LEARNING GAME. He also wrote THE HEAD MAN, a series of plays for Radio 4 and recently THE LAST BARK OF THE BULLDOG (about Churchill), which was one of Radio 4's most popular plays in 2003.
