The Dinner

Product Description I felt the same cold that I had felt earlier that evening in my son's room, the cold that came from inside. Beside the homeless person's head, Rick's face appeared. My nephew grinned at the camera. 'Take one,' he said. 'Action!' An evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet for dinner to discuss their teenage sons. The boys have committed a horrifying crime, caught on CCTV, but so far they remain unidentified - except by their parents. Over the polite hum of restaurant conversation and the squeal of cutlery on plates, the couples have a question to answer: how far will they go to protect their children? Review Smart, shocking and unputdownable --Gillian Flynn, no.1 bestselling author of Gone Girl Deliciously dark... An essential summer read --Independent Gripping... The talking point of the summer --Sunday Times A feast of a novel... Spine-chillingly brilliant --Evening Standard A brilliantly addictive novel that wraps its hands around your throat on page one and doesn't let go --SJ Watson, author of Before I Go To Sleep Shivers kept shooting up my backbone as I became engrossed in Koch's darkly disturbing tale of family life... As the dinner disintegrates into mayhem, we discover just how far the middle classes will go to protect their monstrous offspring --Val Hennessy, Daily Mail Book Description The million-copy bestseller that has got everyone talking. About the Author Herman Koch, born in 1953, is a Dutch writer. He was a renowned television actor on the series Jiskefet and a former columnist for the newspaper Volkskrant. The Dinner is his sixth novel and has already won the prestigious Publieksprijs Prize in 2009. Herman Koch currently lives in Amsterdam.