Privileged Conversation - Hardcover

Hunter, Evan (1926-2005) (pseud.Ed McBain)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340657634 ISBN 13: 9780340657638

Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996

Synopsis

Privileged Conversation Hunter, Evan

About this title

From the Back Cover

She is a Broadway dancer, exquisite and mercurial. He is a dedicated psychiatrist, happily married to a beautiful woman, the father of two lovely children vacationing with their mother on Martha's Vineyard. "Good morning, sir", she said, as she passed David Chapman on a sunny June day in Central Park. Moments later, she was locked in mortal combat with a mugger, and David came to her rescue... They tell each other some truths, but only some. They know each other's mysteries, but only some. They slip into a realm of sensual deception and imminent danger... For who is Kate Duggan really, the woman who makes sexual fantasies come true? And who is David Chapman, the doctor who spends his day with other people's neuroses, guilt, and lies? Now, in the heat of a New York City summer, they will learn everything - when a stalker turns their mad lust into a murderous affair.

From Publishers Weekly

The blurred border between fantasy and obsession is explored in this latest from Hunter (Criminal Conversation and, as Ed McBain, the 87th Precinct novels), who keeps readers off-balance throughout. When happily married psychiatrist David Chapman rescues dancer Kate Duggan during a robbery in Central Park, the chance encounter inspires a sexual fantasy that has disturbing echoes in the revelations of some of his more troubled patients. It's only after David sees Kate dancing the part of Victoria in a performance of Cats that the fantasy is realized. During the course of a summer affair that becomes obsessive, the psychiatrist alternates weekends with his wife and family on Martha's Vineyard with wild evenings in the city with a woman he knows little about. Midway into the novel, the narrative switches from David's to Kate's point of view, as an admirer begins to stalk her. Suddenly, the psychiatrist's mysterious temptress becomes a very real woman in trouble. And there is yet another switch at novel's end, a sucker punch that will daze readers. Consummate craftsman Hunter invests this disquieting yarn with the easy intelligence and dark feel of a good Hitchcock film-plus a creepy resonance all its own. Author tour.
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Edition details

• Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340657634
• ISBN 13: 9780340657638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320