Destroyers

<p><strong>An <em>Esquire</em> Best Book of the Year </strong>- <strong>A <em>Paste</em> Best Novel of the Year</strong></p><p><strong>Recommended by the <em>New York Times Entertainment Weekly TIME Vogue Paste New York Post St. Louis Post-Dispatch Seattle Times </em>Yahoo! <em>Refinery29 </em>BBC <em>PopSugar Boston Herald New York Social Diary Library Journal Bookstr Kirkus</em></strong></p><p><strong>A seductive and richly atmospheric literary thriller with a sleek Patricia Highsmith surface.</strong> <strong>--<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>Equal parts Graham Greene Patricia Highsmith and F. Scott Fitzgerald. . . at once lyrical and suspenseful thoughtful and riveting. --Garth Greenwell author of <em>What Belongs to You</em></strong></p><p><strong>Superb. . . . A read-all-night of a book. --Alan Furst author of <em>A Hero of France</em></strong></p><p>Arriving on the stunning Greek island of Patmos Ian Bledsoe is broke humiliated and fleeing the fallout from his father's death. His childhood friend Charlie--rich exuberant and basking in the success of his new venture on the island--could be his last hope.</p><p>At first Patmos appears to be a dream--long sun-soaked days on Charlie's yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian's past--and Charlie readily offers Ian the lifeline he so desperately needs. But like Charlie himself this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath and it isn't long before the dream begins to fragment. When Charlie suddenly vanishes Ian finds himself caught up in deception after deception. As he grapples with the turmoil left in his friend's wake he is reminded of an imaginary game called Destroyers they invented as children--a game he now realizes they may have never stopped playing.</p>