The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg. Three events - murder, rape and suicide - explode in the is relentless and passionate novel, almost overwhelming in its conception of the varieties of good and evil.
- ISBN10 009928555X
- ISBN13 9780099285557
- Publish Date 5 April 2001 (first published 12 May 1960)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 October 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Vintage Classics
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 576
- Language English