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The Two Faces of January (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Patricia Highsmith (Author), Christopher Ragland (Narrator)

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Listening Length: 9 hours and 26 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Audible.co.uk Release Date: 27 Mar 2014
Language: English
ASIN: B00IRSU54S

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Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: He finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined.

Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the author of The Talented Mr Ripley. Now a major film starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac (Drive, Inside Llewelyn Davis).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Highsmith's hard-boiled Greek tragedy 29 Mar 2009

By Jon E

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"The Two Faces of January" is a typically warped noir from Highsmith which, even by her own peerless standards, is remarkable for the fluid ease with which its central characters adopt and discard identities as they spiral unerringly towards catastrophe.

Rydal Keener is a young American idling his days away in Athens. Rydal becomes fascinated by couple of fellow Americans whom he's noticed in the city, professional fraudster Chester MacFarland and his pretty young wife Colette. Chester, physically at least, reminds Rydal of his recently deceased father with whom he had a troubled relationship, and Colette likewise resembles his teenage sweetheart Agnes, whom he was accused of raping when he was fifteen. Rydal's fate becomes fatally intertwined with the MacFarlands when he stumbles upon the aftermath of Chester's killing of a Greek detective. For reasons which are never entirely clear, even to himself, Rydal helps Chester conceal the body and then to escape the mainland under a false passport. Arriving in Crete, Chester and Rydal's oddly symbiotic relationship becomes increasingly toxic under the spectre of blackmail and the blossoming attraction between Rydal and Colette.

Highsmith pits Rydal and Chester in an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle of nerve and will, with suspenseful sequences in the labyrinthine Palace of Knossos and, later, in Paris. Highsmith devotees will appreciate the atmospheric travelogue she provides as a backdrop, in particular a vividly conjured portrait of off-season Crete. As her characters flit between destinations and identities, with Rydal in pursuit of Chester and the police in pursuit of them both, we are treated to a fascinating snapshot of travel in Europe in the mid-20th Century, a period that now seems curiously quaint. Read more ›

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