From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense   Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events-- involving a bag of “jinxed” money, a suave American, a trunk full of heroin, a hustler taxi driver, and a rich doctor’s daughter-- that changes Robert’s life forever. Hunters in the Dark is a sophisticated game of cat and mouse redolent of the nightmares of Patricia Highsmith, where identities are blurred, greed trumps kindness, and karma is ruthless. Filled with Hitchcockian twists and turns, suffused with the steamy heat and pervasive superstition of the Cambodian jungle, and unafraid to confront difficult questions about the machinations of fate, this is a masterful novel that confirms Lawrence Osborne’s reputation as one of our finest contemporary writers. “Elegant, stylish and ambiguous …Dramatic irony, used sharply by Osborne, keeps the narrative edgy and gripping…Written with unfailing precision and beauty.”— Neel Mukherjee, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Lives of Others “Osborne’s Cambodia is rendered beautifully… If the purpose of a novel is to take you away from the everyday and show you something different, then Osborne is succeeding, and handsomely.”— Lee Child, New York Times Book Review   “Osborne is a master at creating a subtle but unmistakable sense of impending doom…An elegant, dark, well-put together novel…The book races towards a surprising ending — one that I did not see coming.”— NPR.org "Lush and brooding...Osborne creates an atmosphere dripping with torrential rains and intrigue. Cambodia comes off as a dangerously seductive playground, plying visitors with the sultry false promise of uncomplicated abandon among the Buddhist ruins, all under the bemused gaze of the local, ethnic Khmers who know better. The risk, of course, is that there may be no easy exit from the dizzying whirlwind of escape." —Seattle Times "A hauntingly beautiful story of greed, passion and, most importantly, karma."— San Francisco Chronicle “Osborne recalls Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham with this densely atmospheric novel of foreigners and locals navigating fortune and fate among the lush rice fields of Cambodia."— National Geographic Traveler "Complex in plot yet simple and intense in style, Osborne’s narrative takes us into an Asian heart of darkness.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Osborne, frequently compared to Graham Greene ( The Balladof a Small Player , 2014), writes evocatively about the beauties and mysteries of Cambodia... Hunters in the Dark is a strange and heady novel sure to engage armchair travelers."— Booklist “ Osborne successfully demonstrates the inextricably linked relationship between introspection and change. A deeply penetrating meditation on the human experience of belonging."— Library Journal (starred review) "Readers will remember...Osborne's lush, vivid descriptions of a land where 'the daily thunder rolled in with a generous laziness and the trees shimmered with lightening.'"— Publishers Weekly "Like eating fine dark chocolate, you just can’t have too much of Osborne’s latest novel. His mastery of language and his sensory encapsulation of a foreign land makes this a beautiful and creepy story, a fantastic blend of poetic language and bone-chilling tension...Similar in fashion to Conrad’s  Heart of Darkness , Osborne’s beautiful, deliberative style conveys a sense of timelessness that embodies modern Cambodia, a country that guards its ancient treasures. Finally, Osborne offers up a landscape fuelled by heat and rain, and by an often menacing, sinister horizon that is dark in color but silently pulses with interior flashes of fire."— Curled Up with a Good Book "Osborne’s brilliance as a travel writer places his web of deceit, greed and need (two of the most merciless characters are avid for money for dependants, not themselves) in a world conjured up with dazzling immediacy….Beautifully apt phrases embellish the prose: “the vivid lethargy” of the tropics, the “dallying charm” of bar-girls’ eyes… Sumptuous and sinister, languorous and tense, this is a novel that gives Osborne’s remarkable talents haunting scope." — The Sunday Times   “[A] dark, teasing, elegantly written book.”— Financial Times   “The novel generates a palpable dread as Grieve is sucked into a Cambodian demi-monde of drugs, booze and the ghosts of those murdered in the 1970s by Cambodia's homespun Robespierre, Pol Pot. Cambodia, a ‘traumatised country’, comes splendidly to life in Osborne's prose, its rice fields and Frenchified architecture. Hunters in the Dark is a tip-top thriller. Osborne knows how to keep the pa