A new translation of George Simenons taut devastating psychological novel set in American suburbia. The inspiration for the new play by award winning playwright David Hare.I had begun God knows why tearing a corner off of everyday truth begun seeing myself in another kind of mirror and now the whole of the old more or less comfortable truth was falling to piecesConfident and successful New York advertising executive Ray Sanders takes what he wants from life. When he goes missing in a snow storm in Connecticut one evening his closest friend begins to reassess his loyalties gambling Rays fate and his own future.The romans durs are extraordinary tough bleak offhandedly violent suffused with guilt and bitterness redolent of place . . . utterly unsentimental frightening in the pitilessness of their gaze yet wonderfully entertaining John BanvilleOne of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories Guardian