Identity Man

A compelling moral fable in the shape of a gritty twist-filled thriller.Wall Street Journal . John Shannon is a petty thief on the run. A three-time loser framed for murder he knows that hes facing life in prisonor death by lethal injection. Then a bizarre text message draws him to a meeting in the dark of night. A foreigner who calls himself the Identity Man offers Shannon an incredible chance to start again: a new face a new home a new beginning. In a ruined city trying to rebuild he gets work as a carpenter and falls in love. It seems too good to be trueand it is. It turns out this city is crawling with crooked politicians gangsters and dirty copsall of whom seem to want Shannon dead. Moving through the shambles of a town hes got to ferret out the secret of his new lifeand fastif he wants to be left with any life at all. . A gripping thriller.Entertainment Weekly . A work of intense realism pervaded by sorrow mercy hopeand ultimately transcendence.Washington Times