The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle Book Review
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle (available on Amazon US and UK ) is making its way into paperback format this month (August 2016). As I read through, I am enthused to see in Searle a scribe who can pen a (somewhat) memoir-like piece of long, (recent) historical fiction, with the panache of an old gentleman such as Graham Greene. UHQ-literary style is a rarity in thriller fiction today; Banville could be cited as an example, but his novels - if thrillers at all, and some involve murder and conspiracy - are finely wrought outliers. There is action in The Good Liar - not frenetically paced, much of it well timed to be surprising - and certainly more than enough violence to punctuate the humorous or cogent discussions of and meditations on infirmity, duping, history and politics. I found the Grumpy Old Man at the novel's core to be somewhat endearing; he has much of the same shtick as a typical moaner. Searle's work matches style with great plotting. Dickensian-Gothi...