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Someone has stolen Patrick Balfour's identity. A successful headmaster of a London school, a regular broadcaster and a writer of historical novels, as well as having a fairly spicy private life, Balfour is the object of some unsurprising envy. Yet who would be so malicious as to commit identity fraud and frame Patrick as a thief and a paedophile, using his national insurance number and impersonating his handwriting? As Patrick is teased by a series of letters, it becomes apparent that his adversary is certainly better-read than him and he is sent off on a tense literary chase, picking up clues from Kafka's The Trial to R L Stevenson and to Joseph Clark, a 17th Century contortionist. Patrick's morale begins to collapse - the police don't believe him and his daughter rejects him. Desperate, he decides he must pursue his pursuer.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Night Windows
• Author: Jonathan Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780349118932
• ISBN: 0349118930
• ID: 04065599
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 436 g
• Dimensions: 193 × 128 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. July 2005

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