Antidote to Venom (British Library Crime Classics)
George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. As Surridge's debts mount and the pressure on him increases, he begins to dream of miracle solutions....
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George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. As Surridge's debts mount and the pressure on him increases, he begins to dream of miracle solutions. But is he cunning enough to turn his dreams into reality - and could he commit the most devious murder in pursuit of his goals? This ingenious crime novel, with its unusual 'inverted' structure and sympathetic portrait of a man on the edge, is one of the greatest works by this highly respected author.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780712357791 (0712357793)
ASIN: 0712357793
Publish date: 2015
Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
Edition language: English
A fun crime novel with no mystery to it. We spend the first half of the novel with George Surridge, a man of middling competency and morality, and we see how his situation slowly but surely leads him to commit a crime. And then, just when I really got sick of hearing George's point of view (he's n...
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