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A sensational novel of drama and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface following the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial boarding school teacherfrom the legendary author "who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers" (New York Times)Joyce Carol Oates is simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as Im concerned.Gillian FlynnWho is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Foxs car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, everyone in the community, including Detective Zwender and his deputy, begin to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he really might be.A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oatess Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche, while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil deserves. A character as magnetically diabolical as Highsmiths Tom Ripley and Nabokovs Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly all around him, until at last he meets the one person he cant outfox. Written in Oatess trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.