In a few words
A modern crime classic of retribution describing a father’s pursuit of revenge after his young son is killed in a hit-and-run accident.
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“I am going to kill a man. I don’t know his name, I don’t know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like. But I am going to find him and kill him …” So commences this classic story of retribution. Felix Lane is bent upon revenge for the death of his young son in a hit-and-run accident, and uses all the knowledge he has gained as a well-known crime writer to track down the culprit. The plot features amateur sleuth Nigel Strangeways, a character modelled on W.H. Auden.
A modern classic of crime writing, read by one of our most talented actors,
