Marc Behm

'A private-eye novel to end all private-eye novels'

Marc Behm has had a successful career as a film scriptwriter (his credits include Charade and Help) and as an author. He is in his seventies and lives in France. His other novels include Afraid to Death, a literary siamese twin to The Eye of the Beholder

The Eye of the Beholder

PRAISE FOR MARC BEHM

'The new edition of this classic is guaranteed to make a huge impact this time around' - Stuff for Men

'A quest for grace. A stone classic noir' - Crime Time

'A heartbreaking love story, a most puzzling thriller, the story of a descent into hell. A deathly travelogue through every state in the US Union, a major book about desire, the way men look at women, lyrical and relentless in its intensity' - Maxim Jakubowski, Murder One

'One of the punchiest, bleakest, weirdest hard-boiled crime novels I've ever come across, and one of the most original. This slender novel covers 30 years and details over 100 killings. It's a picaresque-epic thriller, a nihilistic road movie: Sam Spade meets Badlands. Vicious episodes occur in almost every section of the country, and the back and forth travel patterns weave a web across the USA. Behm's Eye is a voyeuristic near-sociopath who spends three decades dogging the footsteps of a bi-sexual serial murderess who, in a chameleon-like series of disguises, wanders the country acquiring then snuffing out one well-heeled partner after another. The Eye of the Beholder is a private-eye novel to end all private-eye novels' - Los Angeles Herald Examiner

Order The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm

The Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm, 224pp, £6.99, ISBN: 1 901982 03 3