Book description
Three respected Scottish doctors - psychiatrist Steve Hartford,
paediatric surgeon Grey Lochran and cosmetic surgeon Robert Forrest -
have been close friends since their Edinburgh boyhoods, and now live
handsomely in suburban London. But for each, midlife has brought
certain discontents, especially for Forrest, a reformed womaniser who
broods over his fading looks and the departure of his beautiful
younger girlfriend. When Dr Forrest goes missing one summer evening
and fails to return, Lochran and Hartford are alarmed by the thought
of what might have befallen their friend. The police can find no
evidence of foul play, but the two doctors resolve to conduct their
own investigation. Soon, however, Lochran and Hartford find themselves
bedevilled by bizarre, unnerving events, and the attentions of
menacing strangers. Robert Forrest, they come to realise, has remained
closer than they could ever have imagined...
Richard T Kelly is the author of the novels Crusaders (2008) and
The Possessions of Doctor Forrest (2011). Eclipse, his first script
for television, aired on Channel 4 in 2010. He has written several
studies of filmmakers: Alan Clarke (1998), The Name of this Book is
Dogme 95 (2000), and the authorized biography Sean Penn: His Life
& Times (2004). In 2007 he edited Ten Bad Dates with De Niro: A
Book of Alternative Film Lists. He blogs at http://richard-t-kelly.
blogspot. com.
