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Under the hot desert sun nothing is quite as it seems. Howard Ingham, an American writer, is sent to Tunisia to gather material for a movie, a love story too sordid to be set in America. But his director fails to arrive as scheduled and the erratic mails bring news of infidelities and suicide. Ingham—for reasons obscure even to himself—decides to stay on and work instead on a novel. Gradually, however, a series of peculiar events—a hushed-up murder, a vanished corpse, and secret broadcasts to the Soviet Union—lures him inexorably into the deep, ambivalent shadows of this Arab town; into deceit and away from conventional morality. And when Ingham finds an accomplice to murder, or perhaps something more, what is in question is not justice or truth, but the state of his oddly quiet conscience.Review"Her best novel." —The New Yorker"Larger, funnier, and more thematically ambitious than any of Highsmith’s other novels."—Francine Prose“Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear. ... Highsmith's finest novel to my mind is The Tremor of Forgery, and if I were asked what it is about I would reply, 'apprehension.'” —Graham Greene"Highsmith has produced work as serious in its impl

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Author

Patricia Highsmith

Publisher

The Atlantic Monthly Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802145642

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.77 / 5 (834 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14