"Exceptionally entertaining. . . . The Fall Guy reads like early Ian McEwan or late Patricia Highsmith. . . . This is exactly what a literary thriller should be: intelligent, careful, swift, unsettling. [Lasdun] deserves to find more readers on these shores."
New York Times Book Review "Elegant and disturbing. . . . This simple-seeming novel, so graceful in its ... Read moreunfolding, proves dense with psychological detail and sly social observations."
Wall Street Journal "Aptly described as the literary descendant of Dostoevsky and Patricia Highsmith. . . . The Fall Guy is a twisty, chilly, exquisitely written, and tautly suspenseful exploration of big ideas in the guise of a psychological thriller."
Boston Globe "Superbly engaging and intelligent psychological thriller. . . . A compulsively readable tale of money, power, and betrayal."
Lionel Shriver - Financial Times "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 "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."
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