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All this has taken place by about page 70 – chapter 6 of the book’s 28 chapters – and the rest of the novel describes what he finds out. Nobody, let alone the narrator, Charles, believes that Frank committed the crimes, and Charles sets out to prove that he is innocent. When he arrived at Estrella da Mar he found it as torpid and somnolent as all the others he’d been at. As Laurie Fox screamed in her demented way, spitting out the blood she had sucked into her mouth, Sanger seized her around the waist.Charles goes to visit Frank in prison early in the novel to interrogate him about why he would confess to a crime he clearly could not have committed. Or, in a big red herring, maybe the target will be Dr Irwin Sanger, the resident psychotherapist at Estrella de Mar who, we come to learn, has a fetish for under-age girls, and is more or less driven out of Estralla, taking refuge in a villa he’s bought at the Residencia Costasol, close to the one Charles is living in. This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Neil Gaiman, Zadie Smith, John Lanchester and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs.

This is Kafka reshot in the style of Psycho‘ and then moving on to make comparisons with chess games . But the more ‘amateur sleuthing’ Charles does and the more he finds out, the stranger the place appears. And that’s before you get to the dire condition of the underclass, which I was reading about recently. one surmises JG couldn't come up with another reason for charles to do his Rockford/Columbo routine.About a quarter of the way through, it seems to question whether an investigative process can ever determine the truth, especially when everybody, even the police, seems to be deliberately withholding it from you. Bobby Crawford, a charismatic tennis pro, believes he has identified the link between crime and community engagement. But so are starting your own business, becoming rich, successful and not suffering from financial anxiety for the rest of your life.