Na počátku dostane Susan od svého bývalého mažela rukopis knhy. Pročítá tenhle nečekaně strhující román a uvažuje o svém minulém i současném životě. Se závěrem knihy se rukopis o Tonym neúprosně uzavírá, a pro Susan se možná všechno otevírá: svůj minulý i současný život uviděla v novém světle a její budoucí život se možná vydá jinudy. Wright dovedně propojil dva přitažlivé žánry: thriller a román osobních dramat a soukromých vztahů. Oba zvládá suverénně, obě dějové linie čtenáře vtáhnou a každá po svém se mu vtiskne do...

Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, tries to drown himself in the Ohio River. Failing to manage even that, he decides to hitch a ride east, fleeing the state and escaping accusations of rape and murder. As he assumes and discards aliases along the way, he believes that he can begin again, a fresh start--but the past has a habit of catching up with all of us, no matter how fast we run.

The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge. Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods; a thrilling chiller of death and corruption. How could such a harrowing story be told by the man she once loved? And why, after so long, has he sent her such a disturbing and personal message…?...