David and Molly Jones live with their three-year-old son on Manhattan's Upper West Side. They are devoted to their child and secure in their love for each other. "Then Deirdre invades their lives..." Once upon a time, she was David's wife. Now, suddenly, she is their new neighbor...befriending their son...luring her ex-husband back into a world of addictive sex David both craves and fears. But Deirdre won't be content to be the other woman forever. She wants David back—this time for keeps. There's only one force Deidre didn't reckon on: David' wife. To hold on to her family, her sanity, and her life, Molly is willing to go to hell and back. Played out againt a teeming backdrop of urban life—with all its hidden perils and sudden, random violence— "The Ex" grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until the explosive climax. With this novel, John Lutz proves once again that he is the master of spine-tingling, edge-of-your-chair suspense.
Author
Librarian’s note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. John Lutz has captivated suspense enthusiasts for over four decades. He has been one of the premier voices in contemporary hard-boiled fiction. His work includes political suspense, private eye novels, urban suspense, humor, occult, crime caper, police procedural, espionage, historical, futuristic, amateur detective, thriller; virtually every mystery sub-genre. John Lutz published his first short story in 1966 in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and has been publishing regularly ever since. He is the author of more than fifty novels and 250 short stories and articles. His novels and short fiction have been translated into virtually every language and adapted for almost every medium. He is a past president of both Mystery Writers of America and Private Eye Writers of America. Among his awards are the MWA Edgar, the PWA Shamus, The Trophee 813 Award for best mystery short story collection translated into the French language, the PWA Life Achievement Award, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of two private eye series, the Nudger series, set in his home town of St. Louis, and the Carver series, set in Florida, as well as many non-series suspense novels. His SWF SEEKS SAME was made into the hit movie SINGLE WHITE FEMALE, starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and his novel THE EX was made into the HBO original movie of the same title, for which he co-authored the screenplay. Lutz and his wife, Barbara, split their time between St. Louis and Sarasota, Florida.
