The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception

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The shocking true story of a respectable doctor eighteen years of lies five murders and the extremes to which ordinary people can go. "On the Saturday morning of January 9 1993 while Jean-Claude Romand was killing his wife and children I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting." So Emmanuel Carrre acclaimed master of psychological suspense begins this riveting tale of unfathomable deception. Who could have imagined Romand as a murderer? He was after all a noted physician at the World Health Organization a groundbreaking researcher with connections to international humanitarians a financial wizard entrusted with his in-laws savings a loving son who called his parents every evening. If there was a problem no one knew it. As it turned out there were many: Romand had no medical degree; he had no job; he knew no one famous; he had spent his in-laws money. And when a relative went to break the terrible news about Romands wife and children to his parents they too were dead -- murdered by the stranger who had been their son. A mesmerizing account of the hundreds of daily lies that propelled one mans life The Adversary -- another name for the Devil in the Bible -- is also a meditation on the mystery of identity evil and the desperate logic by which it is easier to kill than to confess.