Disturbing the Peace
‘One of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century’ Sunday Telegraph
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John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But something is wrong.His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn’t coming home…
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