ROBINSON

Literature & Fiction

PETIT, Chris

Literary

RANDOM HOUSE UK

The Psalm Killer

Set in Belfast in the mid-1980s. Detective Inspector Cross gets involved in a pattern of death that grows ever more intricate with each executed murder committed by the Psalm Killer. The murderer taunts Cross and his assistant WPC Westerby with biblical messages and a growing toll of victims.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Alfred.A. Knopf

Back From The Dead

Thrillers & Suspense

Pan.

Chris Petit is a film maker and author that lives in North London

Contemporary

Macmillan

A novel of bristling power--equal parts political thriller, murder mystery, and psychological drama--The Psalm Killer plunges readers into the terrifying heart of the crisis in Northern Ireland. As Detective Chief Inspector Cross searches for a killer stalking the streets of Belfast, he uncovers the insidious, cynical political realities hidden just below the surface of the conflict going on in the city.

Random House Value Publishing

Chris Petit's novel The Psalm Killer, published in 1997 to wide acclaim, is among the best and most electrifying fictional explorations we have had of the "troubles" in Northern Ireland. Now he brings that same narrative mastery to a dark, searing novel that takes us deep into the compulsions of self-destruction and fame. Youselli is a cynical, disillusioned city cop painfully aware of the downward spiral he's on. McMahon is a fading but still profligate rock star who has begun receiving letters signed in the name of a girl who died fifteen years ago, when he was at the height of his fame. McMahon is desperate to know who's writing them. Youselli is reluctant—the privileged decadence and celebrity games of McMahon's life both irritate and attract him—but he agrees to investigate. Almost immediately Youselli is pulled into the eerie mystery of the letters—their combination of anger and yearning, their fierce sexuality, their seeming authenticity in the face of their obvious fabrication and, especially, their strange fatalism: "A man once told me I was malfated. Imagine being told that . . . He said I would never avoid my destiny to be malfated. Make a left instead of a right and it's there waiting. Our lives hang by the slenderest of threads, every minute of every day. You should remember that for when I come. It all ends in death, as you will know." And though the letters are addressed to McMahon, Youselli begins to feel more and more implicated by them himself. He senses that they are somehow tainting the lives of those who read them—especially Edith Weber, the psychiatrist he has enlisted to help him understand the mind behind the letters (and who might help him understand his mind as well)—but he grows increasingly blind to the effect they are having on his own life. Finally, he too appears to be malfated: following the deadly inner logic of obsession, he becomes both detective and fate's agent, the "solution" to the puzzle of the letters leading him toward his undoing. Powerful, chilling and unexpected, Back from the Dead is a clear confirmation of Chris Petit's remarkable gifts.

Back from the Dead

Mystery

KNOPF

The Human Pool

Genre Fiction

Atria Books

An epic and hauntingly topical geopolitical thriller spanning six decades and three continents, The Human Pool confirms the journalist and award-winning filmmaker Chris Petit as the heir to John le Carré and Robert Harris. THE HUMAN POOL Rumors about Willi Schmidt's actions during the Second World War were enigmatic, to say the least. He worked for U.S. Intelligence out of Switzerland; he cut black-market deals on the side; he rescued scores of Jews from the Nazis. Saint or sinner? Either way, Schmidt was strictly murky waters -- and reports of his death in 1945 surprised no one. Sixty years later, Joe Hoover is convinced Schmidt is still alive, armed with a false name and a fortune in pharmaceuticals. For years, Hoover, former Intelligence courier for the American spymaster Allen Dulles, has been haunted by misgivings about his own wartime role in his boss's top-secret financial partnership with the Third Reich. Now, someone wants Hoover dead. Back in Europe, Hoover discovers that operations he thought had ended long ago are still being played out. Forming an uneasy alliance with Vaughan, an undercover journalist investigating neo-Nazi traffic of Kurdish refugees, he begins to unravel a conspiracy that leads deep into his past, to his days mixing with Nazi officers in the supposedly neutral cities of Zurich, Istanbul, and Budapest, where enemies did deals over cocktails. At each step, Hoover finds the shadow of Willi Schmidt and the specter of World War II's most grotesque and enduring legacy -- a trade in people: the human pool. Set against a vivid historical backdrop, The Human Pool mixes fiction and fact to explosive effect. Chris Petit has crafted his finest novel yet -- a cosmopolitan, thinking-person's thriller that turns the world inside out and traces its veins: It spells nothing less than the rebirth of the great espionage novel.

Atria

With Chris Petit's electrifying saga of violence, greed, intrigue, and deception spanning six decades and three continents...  THE GREAT ESPIONAGE NOVEL IS REBORN  Willi Schmidt's actions in World War II were an enigma. He worked for U.S. Intelligence out of Switzerland, cut black-market deals on the side, and rescued scores of Jews from death. Either way, Schmidt drifted in the murky waters between saint and sinner -- and reports of his death in 1945 surprised no one.   Sixty years later, some believe Schmidt is still alive. One is Joe Hoover, a former Intelligence courier still haunted by his own top-secret wartime dealings with the Nazis. Now, someone wants Hoover dead. Returning to Europe to unravel the nightmares that plague his very soul, Hoover finds that the unspeakable operations he thought were over are still at work. To redeem himself at last, Hoover tracks the shadow of the elusive Schmidt, and uncovers the specter of World War II's most grotesque and enduring horror -- a trade in people:  THE HUMAN POOL

Pocket Star

An epic and hauntingly topical geopolitical thriller spanning six decades and three continents, The Human Pool confirms the journalist and award-winning filmmaker Chris Petit as the heir to John le Carré and Robert Harris.THE HUMAN POOLRumors about Willi Schmidt's actions during the Second World War were enigmatic, to say the least. He worked for U.S. Intelligence out of Switzerland; he cut black-market deals on the side; he rescued scores of Jews from the Nazis. Saint or sinner? Either way, Schmidt was strictly murky waters -- and reports of his death in 1945 surprised no one. Sixty years later, Joe Hoover is convinced Schmidt is still alive, armed with a false name and a fortune in pharmaceuticals. For years, Hoover, former Intelligence courier for the American spymaster Allen Dulles, has been haunted by misgivings about his own wartime role in his boss's top-secret financial partnership with the Third Reich. Now, someone wants Hoover dead. Back in Europe, Hoover discovers that operations he thought had ended long ago are still being played out. Forming an uneasy alliance with Vaughan, an undercover journalist investigating neo-Nazi traffic of Kurdish refugees, he begins to unravel a conspiracy that leads deep into his past, to his days mixing with Nazi officers in the supposedly neutral cities of Zurich, Istanbul, and Budapest, where enemies did deals over cocktails. At each step, Hoover finds the shadow of Willi Schmidt and the specter of World War II's most grotesque and enduring legacy -- a trade in people: the human pool.Set against a vivid historical backdrop, The Human Pool mixes fiction and fact to explosive effect. Chris Petit has crafted his finest novel yet -- a cosmopolitan, thinking-person's thriller that turns the world inside out and traces its veins: It spells nothing less than the rebirth of the great espionage novel.

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ROBINSON

The Psalm Killer

Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead

The Psalm Killer

Back from the Dead

The Human Pool

The Human Pool

The Human Pool

The Human Pool