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A Dead Hand

by Paul Theroux
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Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta.
In A Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a captivating and seductive American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die — what is it that pulls Delfont into this story, and will he ever find the truth about what happened?
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Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

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  • ISBN: 9781551993195
  • Release date: November 3, 2009

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  • ISBN: 9781551993195
  • File size: 1953 KB
  • Release date: November 3, 2009
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Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller

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Paul Theroux returns to India with a stylish and gripping novel of crime and obsession in Calcutta.
In A Dead Hand, Paul Theroux brings to dramatic life a dark and twisted narrative of obsession and need. When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from a captivating and seductive American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son’s, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die — what is it that pulls Delfont into this story, and will he ever find the truth about what happened?
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Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller
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