'The Adversary' is the shocking true story of a respectable doctor, 18 years of lies, and five murders. Who could have imagined Jean-Claude Romand as a murderer? He was, after all, a noted doctor at the World Health Organisation, a groundbreaking researcher with connections to international humanitarian figures, a financial wizard entrusted with his in-laws' life savings, a loving son who called his parents every evening to say good night.
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 influential contacts; he had spent his in-laws' money. And when a relative went to break the terrible news of the murder of his wife and children to Romand's parents, they too were dead - murdered by the stranger who had been their son.
A mesmerising account of the hundreds of daily lies that propelled one man's life, 'The Adversary' is also a meditation on the mystery of identity, evil and the desperate logic by which it is easier to kill than to confess. From a bestselling author of psychological suspense, this is a riveting tale of unfathomable deception.
