The Dead Heart

By: Douglas Kennedy

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Paperback | 1 July 1995 | Edition Number 1

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208 Pages

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1.4 x 12.7 x 19.6

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'That dumbshit map. I'd been seduced by it. Seduced by its possibilities. That map had brought me here … That map had been a serious mistake'

The map in question is of Australia, stumbled across in a second-hand bookshop by American journalist Nick Hawthorne, en route to another dead-end hack job in Akron, Ohio. Seduced by all that wilderness, all that NOTHING, Nick decides to put his midlife crisis on hold and light out to the ultimate nowheresville - where a chance encounter throws him into a sun-baked orgy of surf, sex and swill, and a nightmare from which there is no escape.

* 'Douglas Kennedy might never be allowed into Australia again. This is a crazy, compulsive ultimately serious thriller and a bravura fictional debut from one of our best travel writers' Philip Kerr

* 'Pulls off that most difficult feat of being hilariously funny and frightening at the same time' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

* 'Fluent and entertaining … a highly accomplished debut' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

* 'His story-telling is so deft, and the build-up so detailed and convincing, that the denouement proves to be heart-thumpingly effective' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

* 'A comic triumph' TIME OUT

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Pulls off that most difficult feat of being hilariously funny and frightening at the same time - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Fluent and entertaining ... a highly accomplished debut... there is an art to telling shaggy-dog stories well, with the right balance of lightness and suspense, and Kennedy shows himself a master of it. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

His story-telling is so deft, and the build-up so detailed and convincing, that the denouement proves to be heart-thumpingly effective - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

A comic triumph - TIME OUT

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