Strangers on a Train

### The propulsive classic thriller from the bestselling author of The
Talented Mr Ripley and Carol



'The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK
BILLINGHAM

'A gem . . . A magnificent suspense' DAILY MAIL

The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .

'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your
wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know
each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'''

Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines
is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious
smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he'll murder Haines's wife if Haines
will murder Bruno's father. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds
himself trapped in Highsmith's perilous world, where, under the right
circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. From this
moment, almost against his conscious will, he is trapped in a nightmare of
shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.

'Her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability'
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