The fall guy
By: James Lasdun
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781910702833; 9781473545441
Subjects: Bankers; Fiction
Description: It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountain-top house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. Who is the real victim here? Who is the perpetrator? And who, ultimately, is the fall guy?
Notes: Also issued online.