The Tremor of Forgery

By: Patricia Highsmith

Narrated by: Steve Marvel

An expatriate is beset by dark temptations in this tale by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley: "Her best novel" (The New Yorker).

Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, this is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to gather material for a movie too sordid to be set in America. Ingham is cool toward the girlfriend he left behind in New York - but his feelings start to change when she doesn't answer his increasingly aggravated letters and the filmmaker who hired Ingham fails to show in Tunisia.

Amid the tea shops and alleys of the souk, the sun-blasted architecture, and the beaches and hotels frequented by international tourists, Ingham tries to pass the time by working on a writing project. But a series of peculiar events - a hushed-up murder, a vanished corpse, secret broadcasts to the Soviet Union - will pull him in and may finally put his increasingly fragile sense of morality to the test.

©1969 Patricia Highsmith (P)2021 Tantor

Recommend

Thank you, Audible, for having so many Patricia High smith books. I've enjoyed 4 in the last 2 months. This one is very good. Saying anything more would be a spoiler.

Hot desert sun in action

Wonderfull novel ! Whirlpool of emotions with cathartic end wrote so elegantly. My favorite from now

Unforgettable

I miss the end of the story and will be miserable for a long spell as if losing something of myself feeling much as she did for ending the story as explained within. Her riveting exploration of the human psyche delivered within conversations involving many characters are uniquely humane and frighteningly spot on. Worth a relisten for certain. Must say I’m surprised and somewhat shocked that more of her stories aren’t scanned for Kindle or synched with Audible. Someone up the ladder should consider doing this.

If you like Albert Camus’ ‘The Stranger’/existentialism/nihilism, you may like this one

Highsmith’s style is excellent as usual. I found it a bit lethargic in pace and plot but in the spirit of nihilism, what does it matter

From the mind of the genius Patricia Highsmith!

I loved this novel. Out of all Patricia Highsmith’s books, this was my favorite!
Author Brenda K Ward