Character Assassination

A cult hit in its original production as a play, "Character Assassination" returns to us in this revised for as an engaging novel. Tim is fascinated and repelled by the life that Sanjay opens up for him. But as he is increasingly sucked in, and as the consequences of his alliance begin to spin terrifyingly out of control, he is forced to seek a capacity for endurance - and for violence - which he has never suspected he had. Spanning the worlds of high finance and bare-knuckle boxing, of prostitution and classical music, laying bare the urge to kill and the necessity to forgive, "The Reluctant Thief" is an intense exploration of how the worlds of crime and violence touch upon ordinary lives. It examines the moral and psychological forces which compel people into crime, and may help them climb out of it. This is a tale of the dark side of the human psyche, but also a story of a kind of redemption though love and shared humanity.