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by Lawrence Osborne
Never fall for your prey....
A thrilling tale of manipulation and deceit about an American private investigator who travels to Turkey to track down the daughter of a wealthy family, unwittingly setting off a sinister plot.
Four children from wealthy families are sent to a strict prestigious boarding school for troubled teenagers. Haunted by the horrors they experience, they vow to disrupt the status quo by all means necessary.
Years later, Tyler is a private investigator with a failing career who has been hired by petrochemical billionaire James Arthur Knight Jr. to find his run-away daughter, Chana. At a seaside hotel in Turkey, he finds Chana lounging with her three wealthy friends and living with a fake name.
Enthralled by Chana's shyness and elegance, Tyler decides to keep his discovery to himself, accepting Mr. Knight's payments while feeding him elusive information and partying with Chana and her friends over wine and raki. One night, when Tyler lets slip his relationship with the American consul, Chana lights up with interest and asks if he can orchestrate a meeting.
With a backdrop of of glitzy ex-pat parties, diplomatic galas, and the gritty underworld of Istanbul, Chana conjures a plot involving the consul that sets into motion a dark chain of events.
"No one is better than Osborne at conjuring tales about conflicted Americans seeking meaning and escape in striking locales....Bridging classic and contemporary noir with hints of Graham Greene's and Robert Stone's ugly Americans, Osborne creates an unforgiving terrain all his own....A quietly gripping novel that begs for a sequel." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Turkey's legendary vibe of intrigue and slipperiness provides the ideal atmosphere for Osborne's (The Glass Kingdom, 2020) cerebral thriller that reads as a dual homage to Patricia Highsmith and Graham Greene." —Booklist
"What begins with a Ripley-esque premise—an American sent abroad in search of the badly-behaved scion to a wealthy family—soon turns into a seductive cat and mouse, with the roles ever-changing. Children of Wolves is at once a labyrinthine thriller, set on dusky back streets and the terraces of five-star hotels, and an interrogation of privilege and (the performance of) politics in America's imperial shadow." —Rob Franklin, author of Great Black Hope
"Children of Wolves confirms Lawrence Osborne as one of the most intelligently entertaining writers around. You don't so much read his dark idylls as dream your way through them, and this tale of beautiful danger in the form of four young renegades at large in Turkey is a superb addition to his canon." —James Lasdun, author of Afternoon of a Faun
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Lawrence Osborne is a critically acclaimed novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Osborne is the author of eight novels, including Ballad of a Small Player, Beautiful Animals, and The Forgiven, which was adapted into a film starring Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain. Ballad of a Small Player was most recently adapted into a Netflix film starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton. In the past decade, four of his novels have been New York Times Notable Book selections and chosen as best books of the year by The Economist, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR. Osborne is also the founder of London based production company Java Road.
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