The two faces of January

Patricia Highsmith First published 1964

About this book

Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined. Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the author of The Talented Mr Ripley. Now a major film starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac (Drive, Inside Llewelyn Davis). This special edition includes a foreword by director and screenwriter Hossein Amini.

Subjects

  • americans
  • criminals
  • excavations (archaeology)
  • fiction
  • fiction in english
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • fiction, suspense
  • fiction, thrillers, general
  • fiction, thrillers, suspense
  • interpersonal relations
  • keener, rydal (fictitious character), fiction
  • lesbian authors
  • triangles (interpersonal relations)