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The Destroyers: A Novel

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Esquire Best Book of the Year ā€¢ Recommended by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Vogue, Paste, New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Yahoo!, Refinery29, BBC, PopSugar, and the Boston Herald

ā€œA seductive and richly atmospheric literary thriller with a sleek Patricia Highsmith surface."" ā€”New York Times Book Review

""Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting."" ā€”Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

ā€œSuperb. . . . A read-all-night of a book.ā€ ā€”Alan Furst, author of A Hero of France

Arriving on the stunning Greek island of Patmos, Ian Bledsoe is broke, humiliated, and fleeing the fallout from his fatherā€™s death. His childhood friend Charlieā€”rich, exuberant, and basking in the success of his new venture on the islandā€”could be his last hope.

At first Patmos appears to be a dreamā€”long, sun-soaked days on Charlieā€™s yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ianā€™s pastā€”and Charlie readily offers Ian the lifeline he so desperately needs. But, like Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath, and it isnā€™t long before the dream begins to fragment. When Charlie suddenly vanishes, Ian finds himself caught up in deception after deception. As he grapples with the turmoil left in his friendā€™s wake, he is reminded of an imaginary game called Destroyers they invented as childrenā€”a game, he now realizes, they may have never stopped playing.


Verteller: Graham Halstead
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