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ISBN: 1901982033
Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 224pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: January 2000

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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 novels include the classic The Eye of the Beholder which is a literary siamese twin to Afraid to Death and which No Exit also publishes.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

'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

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'Eye of the Beholder is a strange, amazing, wonderful novel. Buy this book!'
- Independent on Sunday

'Part epic road movie, part thriller, part love story, with more atmosphere and attitude than you can shake a .45 at '
- Daily Mirror

'A strange book, wild, puzzling, at times more road novel than crime fiction. A classic.'
- Time Out

'the private eye novel to end all private eye novels'
- Judith Gray, Crime Time Online [read the full review]