A Married Man
Hopkins’ award-winning genius for creating characters delivers again in his taut, intelligent portrayal of John Strickland – a man caught in a web of lies, seduction, moral deception and ultimately shattering violence.Schemes feed on discontent. Murder feeds on deception.John Strickland feels trapped in both a marriage and career that no longer feed or fulfill him. He finds himself falling between the bed-sheets of a rich, beautiful and politically connected young woman – a move that sets into motion forces that will shatter his entire world.A Married Man is an honest, intelligent, psychologically rich portrait of a man seduced by pleasure and power. With unpredictable twists and turns, it is a story of love, passion, betrayal and corruption and all too human need…a gripping look at a troubled marriage, and an even more troubling murder.