Exceptionally entertaining…The Fall Guy reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith…Lasdun is masterly in his story's construction…This is exactly what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift, unsettling. -- New York Times Book Review Elegant and disturbing… This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its unfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations. -- Wall Street Journal Expertly playing the noir card, Lasdun dissects the mercurial relationships among a wealthy financier, his photographer wife and an aimless cousin during a long hot summer in upstate New York. There are plenty of lies and betrayals in this stylish thriller, but it's the slow burn of obsession that makes it sing. -- People A twisty, chilly, exquisitely written, and tautly suspenseful exploration of big ideas in the guise of a psychological thriller.Lasdun's prose is both lapidary and hypnotic. -- Boston Globe As the pages turn, the nervous tension ticks ever higher in Lasdun's combustible psychological thriller. -- Entertainment Weekly Exquisitely written yet propulsively entertaining all at the same time.

a journey into the psyche of a stalker by someone who has been stalked. -- Seattle Review of Books [A] terrific novel of suspense. Lasdun presents the inexorable turnings of fate in a subtle and disconcerting way. -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Lasdun''s controlled, devious storytelling style infuses every tick of the clock with tension. -- Kirkus Reviews.