Duncan Falconer is a former SBS operative turned thriller writer. Classics
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Book 2 of The Alexandria Quartet
Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930's and 40's, the novels of 'The Alexandria Quartet' follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of characters whose motives change dramatically from one book to the next. In Alexandria, an exiled Irish schoolteacher seeks to unravel his sexual obsession with two women: the tubercular cafe dancer, Melissa, and Justine, the alluring Jewish wife of a wealthy Coptic Christian. What emerges in his sessions with the psychiatrist Balthazar, however, is something far more complex - and unfathomably more sinister - than neurosis. Lawrence Durrell’s kaleidoscopic narrative ushers us into a world in which no perception is reliable - and love itself is always an act of treachery.
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