{"product_id":"9780008730499","title":"HAVOC","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Bollen, Christopher \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 25 September 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (The Borough Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 20 | 176g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times' #1 Thriller of 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Highsmithian… highly readable, twisty and shrewd' HANYA YANAGIHARA (on Instagram), author of A Little Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Atmospheric, diabolical fun' LUCY FOLEY, author of The Midnight Feast\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'Disturbingly enjoyable' EMMA HEALEY, author of Elizabeth is Missing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A taut, wicked masterpiece' MONA AWAD, author of Bunny\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Five years ago, 81-year-old Maggie Burkhardt fled her native Wisconsin in suspicious circumstances. She has come to rest somewhere she can imagine staying forever: the Royal Karnak Hotel in Luxor, Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Maggie is no sweet little old lady. She has a nasty, nosy habit: she spies on her fellow guests and manipulates situations to 'liberate' them from what she sees as unhappy relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Wrongly assuming eight-year-old Otto and his well-meaning mother will be easy targets, she is soon locked in a death-spiral with her young prey. Has she finally met her match in a child one-tenth her age?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Crackling with the perceptive, acid wit of The White Lotus and haloed by Shirley Jackson’s cruel, dark magic, HAVOC is a decadent and ghastly delight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Readers are saying…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Absolutely brilliant and insane. I went in knowing very little about the book and I’m glad because it made it even more of a wild ride' ?????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'I loved this book from the first page… The conflict between the old and the young in this cat and mouse tussle is brilliant. It’s a hard to put down novel and has a great twist at the end' ?????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'I had an absolute blast reading this. Otto and Maggie are wild characters and their behavior is shocking!' ????\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55824392454519,"sku":"9780008730499","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9780008730499.jpg?v=1758646821","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9780008730499","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}