The Long Shadow
Published on 18. July 2013
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-0-7553-9231-5 (ISBN)
Description
Blood brothers or sworn enemies? You never forget what the fight was about...
Ben Makepeace has barely thought of Jacob since school. What he remembers is a competitive, manipulative boy, impinging on his life like a cuckoo planted in a nest.
Now Ben is the wrong side of forty with a young son to support and in need of a backer to bankroll his latest film script. A call to meet hedge-fund billionaire Victor Sheldon is promising, but there's a surprise in store - Victor is Jacob, now firmly entrenched in a gilded world of riches and glamour.
History can cast a long shadow and while Ben believes his childhood is well over, he soon discovers the roots of the past dig deep, and some can't let it go.
Ben Makepeace has barely thought of Jacob since school. What he remembers is a competitive, manipulative boy, impinging on his life like a cuckoo planted in a nest.
Now Ben is the wrong side of forty with a young son to support and in need of a backer to bankroll his latest film script. A call to meet hedge-fund billionaire Victor Sheldon is promising, but there's a surprise in store - Victor is Jacob, now firmly entrenched in a gilded world of riches and glamour.
History can cast a long shadow and while Ben believes his childhood is well over, he soon discovers the roots of the past dig deep, and some can't let it go.
Reviews / Votes
Part psychological thriller, part mystery this [is a] stylish tale... extremely readable * Sunday Mirror * A clever, teasing hybrid of genres (psychological thriller, dark comedy, Pardoner's Tale and dystopia)...fraught with tensions about money, class and the super rich....This is a taught, gripping psychodrama and a wonderful twisted take on the 'wild divergences' of contemporary Britain * Spectator Magazine * [T]he author's gift for an elegantly turned sentence is fully and generously in evidence * Express * Mark Mills has shown that he is a writer of real psychological acuity - but there is one area he has made his own: the untrustworthiness of appearances, and the pitfalls for those who make no attempt to look beneath seductive, attractive surfaces...his most richly textured work yet * Independent * I really enjoyed this book... The plot is excellent and as a reader we're not sure what is genuine and what is sabotage until near the end -- NewBooks Magazine A master storyteller -- Val McDermid A master of the art of murderous storytelling * The Sunday Times * Clever, original, subtle and stylish * Observer *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
742 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7553-9231-5 (9780755392315)
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Mark Mills has lived in both Italy and France and has written for the screen. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.