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Revenge
This brilliant recasting of the classic story The Count of Monte Cristo centers on Ned Maddstone, a happy, charismatic, Oxford-bound seventeen-year-old whose rosy future is virtually pre-ordained. Handsome, confident, and talented, newly in love with bright, beautiful Portia, his father an influential MP, Ned leads a charmed life. But privilege makes him an easy target for envy, and in the course of one day Ned's destiny is forever altered. A promise made to a dying teacher combined with a prank devised by a jealous classmate mutates bewilderingly into a case of mistaken arrest and incarceration. Ned finds himself a political prisoner in a nightmarish exile that lasts years, until a fellow inmate reawakens Ned's intellect and resurrects his will to live. The chilling consequences of Ned's recovery are felt worldwide.
Book Details
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Publish Date: May 13rd, 2003
- Pages: 338
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.80in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780812968194
- Categories: • Literary• Thrillers - Psychological• Coming of Age
About the Author
Stephen Fry is the author of three previous novels and a memoir. As an actor he has been featured in numerous films, including Gosford Park, A Civil Action, and Wilde, in which he played the title role, and in such popular English TV series as Jeeves and Wooster, Black Adder, and A Bit of Fry and Laurie. He lives in London.
Praise for this book
"[Fry] has once again proven that he is an entertainer of the very first rank." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "It's an old story...but Fry...has the wit and erudition to make it run like a well-made pocket watch. Be warned: the vengeance promised by the title has an unabashedly nasty flavor that's distinctly British and quite refreshing."--Newsweek "In his first attempt at thriller writing, British actor-novelist Stephen Fry doesn't stumble at all....Revenge is sweet." --People "A brisk thriller...smooth, clever, bittersweet, and dramatically entertaining." --The Seattle Times