Debt to Pleasure A Novel

"....[S]omething sly and sinister creeps into the story by way of Tarqin's digressions and asides, until, finally, we get it. This man is not unaware of himself. He knows what he is doing and what he is telling us about himself. His parenthetical revelations produce little shivers of shock. He lifts the lid on his cooking pot and when we see what ingredients are really in his stew, our horror is all the greater because we had been so skillfully encouraged until then to be innocent."Lanchester, John is the author of 'Debt to Pleasure A Novel', published 2001 under ISBN 9780312420369 and ISBN 0312420366.