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In Patricia Highsmith’s debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world—where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.
The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith on a prolific career of noir fiction, and proved her mastery of depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.
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“A book that still has the power to shock seventy years later. That power comes through in Bronson Pinchot’s narration. His voice conveys the requisite pitch of menace and malice, at once impulsive and premeditated, as well as the sly humor that was a characteristic of so much of Highsmith’s fiction.”
— New York Times Book Review (audio review)
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“For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there’s no one like Patricia Highsmith.”
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“A moody and disturbing excavation of guilty paranoia.”
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“Strangers on a Train is a moral-vertigo thriller: Crime and Punishment for a post-atomic age.”
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“It is a truly gripping murder story. And yet, the psychological terror of the book is informed by the dual psychosis of its main characters.”
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“An incredible study of psychological torture and how fine the membrane is between normality and the underlying darkness.”
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“Strangers on a Train is filled with paranoia and anxiety, and through its twists and turns, we, like poor Guy Haines, are also drawn into psychopath Bruno’s web.”
— Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestsellingauthor
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A New York Times Book Review Pick of Novels That Capture the Pain and Chaos of Alcoholism
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A New York Times Pick of Best Classic Mysteries in Audio
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Isobel Taylor-Rodgers, 10/27/2022
About Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was an American author most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. She wrote more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.
About Bronson Pinchot
Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.