by Patricia Highsmith · Círculo de lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422624530
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«Extraños en un tren» is the psychological suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (344 pages, in Spanish).
Bruno and Guy, two strangers who meet on a train, fantasize about a plan to commit a murder with no apparent motive. When Bruno decides to carry it out, Guy, terrified, becomes his hostage: the threat of a crime in exchange for another drags him into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.
Translation by Jordi Beltrán. Work originally published in 1950 as Strangers on a Train and adapted into film by Alfred Hitchcock.
For readers of crime fiction and psychological suspense, for its criminal plot and unsettling atmosphere.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
