The Venice Train av Georges Simenon

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<p><i>''There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at home, in the middle of a meal, he would suddenly find his forehead bathed in sweat, a tightness in his chest, and at those times, feeling everyone''s eyes on him was unbearable.''<br></i><br>During a chance meeting on the train from Venice to Paris, a stranger asks Justin Calmar to deliver a briefcase for him to an address in Switzerland. Soon this ordinary family man will become hopelessly, fatally, ensnared in a world of guilt, lies and paranoia.<br><br>Originally published in 1965, shortly after Simenon moved into the new home he had built in ¿alinges, Switzerland, this chilling novel is a powerful exploration of the fragility of the human psyche.</p>