The adversary
Subtitle: a true story of monstrous deception
By: Emmanuel Carrère ; translated by Linda Coverdale
Contributors: Coverdale, Linda, translator
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781784705800; 9781473547858
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Investigation; Murder; Murderers
Work titles: Adversaire
Description: 'On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claud Roman was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting ... ' With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 2001.

Translated from the French.

Translated from the French.