A thriller about what happens to a man when a lifetime of lies catches up with him. Roy is a living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings. But who is this man and what has he had to do to survive this life of lies? And why is this beautiful woman so willing to be his next victim? One of the most compelling and unreliable narrators in recent fiction.