Someone Else
by Tonino Benacquista

Cover Design: Killian Strong

Crime Paperback Original

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Who hasn't wanted to become “someone else”? The person you've always wanted to be…the person who won't give up half way to your dreams and desires?

One evening two men who have just met at a Paris tennis club make a bet; they give each other exactly three years to radically alter their lives. Thierry, a picture framer with a steady clientele, has always wanted to be a private investigator. Nicolas is a shy, teetotal executive trying not to fall off the corporate ladder. But becoming someone else is not without risk; at the very least the risk of finding yourself.

Author Information
Tonino Benacquista, born in France of Italian immigrants, dropped out of film studies to finance his writing career. After being, in turn, a museum night-watchman, a train guard on the Paris-Rome line...

The Translator
Adriana Hunter's work has included two novels by Agnès Desarthe, Beigbeder's vitriolic attack on the world of advertising, '£9.99', and Catherine Millet's explicit autobiography, 'The Sexual Life of Catherine M'.

Praise for Someone Else
''A great read from one of France's best crime writers'' The Guardian

''Benacquista writes with humor and verve, letting the plot flow naturally from moment to moment rather than making his characters slaves to the narrative'' Rain Taxi