When two men meet in a bookshop in Berlin they begin an uneasy friendship. Patrick has a sensational story to tell: a ghostwriter for a Russian oligarch recently found hanged, he says the people who killed his boss are now following him...
A twist on the cat-and-mouse narrative, A Lonely Man is about the search for identity and the elastic nature of truth. As the two men's association hurtles towards tragedy, Robert is forced to confront whether actual events are the only things that give a story life, and if some stories are too dangerous to tell.
Chris Power is the author of the novel A Lonely Man (2021) and the story collection Mothers (2018), which was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. He lives in London.
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