The Mahe Circle Av Georges Simenon

<b>“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré<br></b><br><b>The first-ever English publication of Georges Simenon’s compelling novel about summer escape and elusive obsessions</b><br><br><i>“The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son’s bed, the deafening sound of cicadas.”<br></i><br>During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles, Dr. Mahé caught a glimpse of something irresistible. As the memory continues to haunt him, he falls prey to a delusion that may offer an escape from his conventional existence—or may destroy him. Taut, insightful, and impossible to put down, this is the first English translation of <i>The Mahé Circle</i>, Simenon’s dark, malevolent depiction of an ordinary man trapped in mundanity and consumed by obsession.