The Woman In The Fifth

Douglas Kennedy’s new novel demonstrates once again his
talent for writing serious popular fiction. The Pursuit of
Happiness and A Special Relationship were both Sunday
Times bestsellers in paperback. That was the year my life
fell apart and that was the year I moved to Paris. When
Harry Ricks arrives in Paris on a bleak January morning he
is a broken man. He is running away from a failed marriage
and a dark scandal that ruined his career as a film
lecturer in a small American university. With no money and
nowhere to live Harry swiftly falls in with the city’s
underclass barely scraping a living while trying to finish
the book he’d always dreamed of writing. A chance meeting
with a mysterious woman Margit Kadar with whom Harry falls
in love is his only hope of a brighter future. However
Margit isn’t all she seems to be and Harry soon has to
make a decision that will alter his life forever.