Description: "Glen Duncan''s sentences twist and turn and inevitably end up in unexpected and exciting places. His paragraphs are nothing less than accomplishments. A DAY AND A NIGHT AND A DAY claims espionage fiction away from the world of pulp and commercial writers, and delivers an astonishingly heady and warm and enthralling read. This is the good stuff." - Charles Bock, bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN "[Glen Duncan''s] paragraphs are nothing less than accomplishments. A DAY AND A NIGHT AND A DAY....delivers an astonishingly heady and warm and enthralling read. This is the good stuff." - Charles Bock, bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN "This stunning novel contains equal doses of cruelty and beauty, rendered with language so precise that it reaches your nerves with both pain and delight. There are no lukewarm emotions in this novel, only the intensity of people perpetually on the verge--of disgust with life on the one hand, and an irrefutable desire to go on living on the other." - Dalia Sofer, bestselling author of The Septembers of Shiraz "This stunning novel contains equal doses of cruelty and beauty, rendered with language so precise that it reaches your nerves with both pain and delight. There are no lukewarm emotions in this novel, only the intensity of people perpetually on the verge - Dalia Sofer, bestselling author of The Septembers of Shiraz "Glen Duncan''s pen is surely dipped in gold, for the images he evokes in A Day and a Night and a Day are unobtrusively woven amid the tapestry of disturbingly beautiful metaphors for human suffering. He confidently and disarmingly lulls his reader into a dreamscape of impossible romances and familial loyalties, only to assault any notions of comfort and send you tumbling into an uncompromising reality of contemporary torture . . . despite the subject matter, Duncan''s contemplative use of language makes for a most rewarding read, and his stunningly vivid imaginings have created an exquisite novel." - Publishers Weekly Galley Talk "A meticulously artful book. . . . Duncan is a virtuoso of villains . . . He has managed to pull off a difficult trick: to splice a novel of ideas and a thriller without maiming either genre." - New York Magazine "A stunning new novel...British novelist Glen Duncan delivers a literary thriller good enough to make thinking readers abandon Tom Clancy and become curious again about Fyodor Dostoevsky''s Grand Inquisitor. . . . I defy most readers to put it down." - Cleveland Plain Dealer "A meticulously artful book." - New York Magazine "Glen Duncan is one of the best English-language writers working today--smart and musical, funny and serious at once. A day and a night and a day is a good estimation of how long it will take you to gulp down this wonderful novel." - Darin Strauss, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and More Than it Hurts You "Grim, violent and paradoxically elegant." - Kirkus Reviews "A stunning new novel...I defy most readers to put it down." - Cleveland Plain Dealer "Duncan''s polished, merciless, and frequently hilarious prose supplies a trove of pleasures all its own." - Publishers Weekly "Duncan can be clairvoyant about how people live now. . . . A Day and a Night and a Day . . . leave[s] you with the sense of having been brushed by something uncanny, so close does Duncan get to saying the unsayable. Bracing and original." - New York Times Book Review "Thrilling, a probe deep into the heart of our age . . . bracing and original." - International Herald Tribune "Imagery is a tool of seduction for Duncan, who is one of England''s best-kept literary secrets. And he wields it brilliantly . . . A Day and a Night and a Day is a triumph." - Richmond Times-Dispatch "A gripping, entertaining read." - Orlando Sentinel "Gripping...the darkest and most convincing account of the idiocies, insights and horrors of the "war on terror" that I''ve yet read." - Salon.com

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