The Pretender
By David Belbin
2008
First Published
3.40
Average Rating
240
Number of Pages
From an early age, Mark Trace shows a remarkable talent for literary forgery. A gap year in Paris sees his skill exploited by an unscrupulous manuscript dealer. Hurrying home, Mark fetches up in London, working at one of the UK's oldest literary magazines. That's when the trouble really starts. Hemingway and Graham Greene are only the beginning. What starts as a prank soon becomes deadly serious. In this literary thriller David Belbin writes about originality, desire and literary ambition in the voice of a character with the capacity to deceive everyone, including himself.
Avg Rating
3.40
Number of Ratings
68
5 STARS
15%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
38%
2 STARS
16%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
David Belbin
Author · 22 books
Belbin's work is known for breaking boundaries and dealing responsibly with difficult social issues that affect teenagers. He first attained success with a number of books for Scholastic's Point Crime series.
