Ira Levin is an award-winning author and dramatist whose work has spawned myriad famous Hollywood movies and a worldwide cult following.
The boy most likely to succeed is now the man most wanted for murder.
A brilliant young psychopath goes from honour student, class president, and war hero to killer of his pregnant lover. Unable to stop, he gets away with murder after murder - blind to the one fatal weakness that can expose him.
“The book is a succession of quite legitimate surprises, the suspense is admirably sustained, the detail is thorough and convincing, and the writing is considerably above the level usually associated with fictional crime and passion. A pleasure to recommend.”
“Here is not merely an extraordinary first but an extraordinary suspense novel by the highest professional standards; and you have an evening of incomparable excitement ahead of you. Levin combines great talent for pure novel writing with strict whodunit tricks as dazzling as anything ever brought off by Ellery Queen or Agatha Christie.”
Ira Levin is the author of The Boys from Brazil, The Stepford Wives, This Perfect Day, Silver, and A Kiss Before Dying (for which he won the Edgar Award). All of his novels were international bestsellers, including Rosemary’s Baby and Son of Rosemary, selling tens of millions of copies around the world. A number of famous Hollywood movies were adapted from his books, and his play Deathtrap was the longest running comic thriller in the history of Broadway. Ira Levin died in 2007.
2003 - Edgar Allan Poe "Grand Master" Award
1996 - Bram Stoker Award
1992 - Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
1954 - Mystery Writers of America for Edgar Allan Poe Award