From the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemption. Harper wakes every night, terrified of the sounds outside his hut halfway up a mountain in Bali. He is afraid that his past as a mercenary has caught up with him — and that his life may now been in danger. As he waits to discover his fate, he meets Rita, a woman with her own past tragedy, and begins a passionate affair. Their relationship makes Harper realise that exile comes in many forms — but can Rita and Harper save each other while they are putting each other very much at risk? Moving between Indonesia, the Netherlands and California, from the 1960s to the 1990s, Black Water turns around the 1965 Indonesian massacres, one of the great untold tragedies of the twentieth century

Роман зрелой уравновешенной замужней женщины с загадочным незнакомцем, начавшийся в результате случайной встречи, приводит их обоих на скамью подсудимых по обвинению в убийстве. Как это могло произойти с Ивонн Кармайкл, известным ученым и матерью двух детей? «Это история о том, как мы создаем себе иллюзорные представления о незнакомых людях, а затем упорно следуем этим представлениям, игнорируя реальные обстоятельства». 18+