The Actor

TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS, HE MUST SACRIFICE EVERYTHING . . . Read most original new thriller, a story of glamour, secrets and obsession ‘This compelling psychological thriller set in the acting world is both uncompromising and unsettling, with deeply layered characters and a narrative voice that grabs you from the opening line and won’t let you go’ Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient ---- Actor Adam Sealey owes his Oscar nomination to mentor Jonathan Dors. It was Jonathan who trained him in the Method: digging deep into personal trauma in pursuit of the greatest performance. It gets results. But there’s a price. For Adam, it cost him the love of his life. And then there’s what happened twenty years ago. An awful secret he’s buried deep inside. Yet as Oscar night beckons, someone is threatening to dig up the truth. Adam is finally in the spotlight that he craved for so long. But it might just mean the world is watching as everything falls apart . . . ----‘A compulsive thriller . . . very, very moving, I adored it’ Abigail Dean ‘Twisty, compulsive fun’ i ‘A barnstorming performance' The Times ‘A brilliantly twisted (and twisting) tale . . . I loved it’ Mat Osman‘Brilliantly evoked, totally compelling. A first-class thriller’ Daily Mail‘Brilliant, dark, immersive, and ultimately hugely satisfying’ Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things

TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS, HE MUST SACRIFICE EVERYTHING . . .

Read most original new thriller, a story of glamour, secrets and obsession

‘This compelling psychological thriller set in the acting world is both uncompromising and unsettling, with deeply layered characters and a narrative voice that grabs you from the opening line and won’t let you go’ Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient

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Actor Adam Sealey owes his Oscar nomination to mentor Jonathan Dors. It was Jonathan who trained him in the Method: digging deep into personal trauma in pursuit of the greatest performance.

It gets results.
But there’s a price.

For Adam, it cost him the love of his life.
And then there’s what happened twenty years ago.
An awful secret he’s buried deep inside.

Yet as Oscar night beckons, someone is threatening to dig up the truth.
Adam is finally in the spotlight that he craved for so long.
But it might just mean the world is watching as everything falls apart . . .

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‘A compulsive thriller . . . very, very moving, I adored it’ Abigail Dean

‘Twisty, compulsive fun’ i

‘A barnstorming performance'' The Times

‘A brilliantly twisted (and twisting) tale . . . I loved it’ Mat Osman

‘Brilliantly evoked, totally compelling. A first-class thriller’ Daily Mail

‘Brilliant, dark, immersive, and ultimately hugely satisfying’ Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things

• | Author: Chris MacDonald
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781405958318
• | ISBN-10: 1405958316