Throw Me to the Wolves

✍ Scribed by Patrick McGuinness

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 355 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"A significant literary achievement that also happens to be a terrific page-turner."- Jonathan Lee
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**"Elegantly written, darkly entertaining."- John Banville
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****"An extraordinary writer of great compassion . . . Stunning."- Denise Mina
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In the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and a neighbor, a retired teacher from Chapleton College, is arrested. An eccentric loner-intellectual, shy, a fastidious dresser with expensive tastes-he is the perfect candidate for a media monstering.
In custody he is interviewed by two detectives: the circumspect Ander, and his workaday foil, Gary. Ander is particularly watchful now, because the man across the table is someone he knows-someone he hasn't seen in nearly thirty years. Determined to salvage the truth as ex-pupils and colleagues line up against the accused, he must face a story from decades back, from his own time as a Chapleton student, at...