Praise for The Adversary "A fantastic tale that happens to be true, a picture of everyday life with its flesh peeled off." --Gary Indiana, author of Rent Boy and Horse Crazy "[A] savagely intense and utterly compelling investigation by one of France's finest living writers.this is not just Carrère's most accessible book, but his best." -- The Times (London) "Carrère's gripping tale of true crime is like the worst nightmare one could have in a marriage--that one day you may wake up next to someone you have never known at all, and whose capacity for self-deception is only surpassed by their capacity for murder." --Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter "A chilling and unputdownable book.Imagine a sleek, twenty-first century version of In Cold Blood ." -- The Washington Post Book World " The Adversary brings together the best qualities of Carrère's books: acute observations of daily life, beautiful writing, and a limpid style that drags you down into the abyss as easily as you might go for a stroll." -- Le Monde "Intelligent and lucid.

Mr. Carrère's book is a startling exposé of the human capacity to do wrong and our equally startling capacity to look the other way." -- The New York Times "As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize the hold he's got on you when you attempt to pull away.You say: True crime and Literature? I don't believe it. I say: Believe it." --Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "[A] mesmerizing true-crime tale of an apparently ordinary man whose life mutates in the space of a few blood-splattering hours from the realm of Renoir to that of Stephen King." -- People "The 'adversary,' as Carrère reminds us, is synonymous with 'Satan'.This is an elegant and deeply unsettling book about a man--a void disguised as a man--who, once he started lying, found he couldn't stop.

The Adversary will haunt you." -- L.A. Weekly "A bravura performance, one that showcases the spare language, icy detachment and understatement that are hallmarks of this master stylist." -- The Dallas Morning News Praise for Emmanuel Carrère "If Michel Houellebecq is routinely advanced as France's greatest living writer of fiction, Carrère, whose prose is no less remarkable for its purity and whose vision is no less broad, is widely understood as France's greatest writer of nonfiction." -- The New York Times Magazine "The current French intellectual scene has produced few such prolific and prodigiously talented personalities as Emmanuel Carrère." -- The New York Review of Books "Carrère is masterly both at singling out the telling detail and at grasping and conveying his subject as a whole . What is most compelling about his work is the quality of his mind, of his thinking.

Of the scourging pressure of his need to understand." --Robert Gottlieb, The New York Times Book Review.