The Intruder

By Peter Blauner

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FICTION

336 Pages, 6.5 x 9.5

Formats: Cloth

Cloth, $29.99 (US $29.99) (CA $34.99)

Publication Date: March 2024

ISBN 9781639511297

Rights: WOR

Dead Sky Publishing (Mar 2024)

Price:	$29.99

Overview

Dark circumstances arrive in Peter Blauner’s New York Times bestselling blockbuster novel, The Intruder, with a foreword by the author exclusive to this new hardcover edition.

What would a good man do to protect his family? How far will he go and how far is too far?

Jake Schiff is a successful New York lawyer trying to do right by his family. John Gates is a mentally disturbed man barely surviving on the streets. Their worlds collide violently when Jake’s wife Dana tries to help John as a psychiatric patient. John decides that Jake has somehow usurped the life that was meant for him. He begins showing up outside the Schiffs’ house and demanding his family back. Suddenly everything is called into question. Including the matter of who the real intruder is.

The Intruder is a tale of two lives, two cities, and how fate can quickly turn and go from saving lives to completely destroying them.

Reviews

"UN-PUTDOWNABLE! MY ADVICE IS TO READ THIS BOOK." —Stephen King

"The best novel I've read in years. It has great characters, a great story, a great heart. If you want comparisons, I can't give you any. There aren't any. I think Peter Blauner is better than Grisham, better than Patricia Cornwell. I loved The Intruder! Loved, loved, loved it." —James Patterson

"Brilliant...A virtuoso performance." —Associated Press

"The Intruder might be the best novel about the paranoia of living in New York ever written. One of the best pure-New York novels in years." —New York Daily News

"An excellent book." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Deft... nuanced... Blauner harnesses his astute take on the city to a solid thriller... The Intruder possesses energy and a real zest for the city." —USA Today

"Gripping... convincing... richly imagined... A harrowing, compelling read." —The New York Times

"More than a story about a man protecting his family. It's about a man losing faith—in love, in God, in humanity—and the possibility of regaining it." —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Author Biography

Peter Blauner is the author of nine novels, including Slow Motion Riot, winner of the 1992 Edgar award for best first novel from Mystery Writers of America, and The Intruder, a New York Times bestseller and a bestseller overseas. He began his career working for legendary newspaper columnist Pete Hamill and first broke into print as a journalist, writing cover stories for New York magazine about crime and politics. His novels have been published in twenty languages and his short fiction has been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories and NPR’s Selected Shorts from Symphony Space.

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