A Personal History of Thirst
John Burdett
301 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0788166298
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Language: English
Publish: September 28, 1996
A psychosexual novel about an ill-fated love triangle where all hunger for something & are willing to risk everything to get it. A gripping tale of murder, revenge, infidelity, ambition, & deception that keeps shocking until the stunning courtroom climax. Ambitious London lawyer James Knight, who has denied his lower-class background in order to climb the social & professional ladder of the British legal system, meets with a client — an accused thief named Oliver Thirst — & they become embroiled in an erotic menage a trois with an American woman named Daisy. Eleven years later, one is dead & two are suspected of murder.