Used Book – The Daring Mr. Swift, John Boyne

In 1988, in a Berlin hotel, Maurice Swift meets the great writer Erich Ackermann. A meeting that will allow the young man to become the author he has always dreamed of being. A few years later, Maurice Swift has made a name for himself; he now needs new sources of inspiration. It doesn't matter where he finds his stories or to whom they belong, as long as they contribute to his success. Stories that will make him famous, but that will also lead him to lie, borrow, steal. Or even worse… who knows?

Centred around a troubling character with outsized ambitions, The Audacious Mr. Swift tells how easy it is to have the world at your feet if you are willing to sacrifice your soul.

A high-calibre literary thriller, handled with dazzling dexterity. Elle.

An ability to carry the reader, breathless but captivated, to the very end.

Le Monde des livres.

A novel as venomous as it is magnetic. Le Journal du dimanche.

Translated from English (Ireland) by Sophie Aslanides.