HAVOC
by Christopher Bollen
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Pub Date 3 Dec 2024 | Archive Date 24 Dec 2024
HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction | The Borough Press
Description
A modern-day Ripley from the celebrated author of A Beautiful Crime, praised by ZADIE SMITH as 'Fantastic'
Eighty-one-year-old Maggie Burkhardt has left it all behind. After the death of her husband and the tragic loss of her daughter Julia, she fled her native Wisconsin and has spent the last five years ping-ponging between the world’s luxury hotels. Now she has finally come to rest somewhere she can imagine staying forever: the Royal Karnak Hotel in Luxor, Egypt.
Maggie is no sweet old lady. She has a nasty, nosy little habit: she spies on her fellow guests and manipulates situations to 'liberate' them from what she sees as unhappy relationships.
When an enigmatic eight-year-old boy, Otto, and his well-meaning mother arrive at the hotel, Maggie sees two easy targets. But she is more wrong than she could possibly know, and is soon locked in a death-spiral with Otto – has she finally met her match in a child one-tenth her age?
Crackling with the perceptive acid wit of The White Lotus and haloed by Shirley Jackson’s cruel, dark magic, Christopher Bollen’s new novel is a decadent and ghastly delight.
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9780008730475 |
PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 352 |
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Featured Reviews
Eighty-one-year-old Maggie Burkhardt has left it all behind. After the death of her husband and the tragic loss of her daughter Julia, she fled her native Wisconsin and has spent the last five years ping-ponging between the world’s luxury hotels. Now she has finally come to rest somewhere she can imagine staying forever: the Royal Karnak Hotel in Luxor.
I loved this book from the first page. It is so wonderfully written. The descriptions, it only of places but of situations and thoughts are fabulous. The conflict between the old and the young in this cat and mouse tussle is brilliant. It’s a hard to put down novel and has a great twist at the end.
Absolutely brilliant and insane. I went in knowing very little about the book and I’m glad because it made it even more of a wild ride. The building of tension as the protagonist unravels was excellent and the finale did not disappoint!
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