тАЬPatricia HighsmithтАЩs novels are peerlessly disturbing┬а.┬а.┬а. bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.тАЭ тАФThe New Yorker
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Ray Garrett, a wealthy young American living in Europe, is grieving over the death of his wife. Ray is at a loss for why she would take her own life, but PeggyтАЩs father Ed Coleman, has no such uncertaintyтАФhe blames Ray completely.
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Late one night in Rome, Coleman shoots Ray at point-blank range. He thinks heтАЩs had his revenge, but Ray survives, and follows Coleman and his wealthy girlfriend to Venice.
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In Venice, it happens again: Coleman attacks his loathed son-in-law, dumping him into the cold waters of the laguna. Ray survives with the help of a boatmanтАФand this time he goes into hiding, living in a privately rented room under a fake name. So begins an eerie game of cat and mouse. Coleman wants vengeance, Ray wants a clear conscience, and the police want to solve the mystery of what happened to the missing American.
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As Ray and Coleman stalk each other through the narrow streets and canals, the hotels and bars of the beguiling city, Those Who Walk Away becomes a literary thriller that simmers with violence and unease from the acclaimed author of such classics as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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тАЬAn atmosphere of nameless dread, of unspeakable foreboding, permeates every page of Patricia Highsmith.тАЭ тАФThe Boston Globe
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тАЬFor eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, thereтАЩs no one like Patricia Highsmith.тАЭ тАФTime