Stranger

by Bryan Forbes

Very good in a good dust jacket (short closed tear with associated creasing to lower edge of front cover of dj). Hardcover first edition - Garden City, Doubleday,, 1980.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good dust jacket (short closed tear with associated creasing to lower edge of front cover of dj).. First US printing. When Theo Gittings, a distinguished British author, is been found dead in a squalid boardinghouse, his affairs are to be settled by his cousin who discovers a journal which reveals Gittings to have a double life of sexual subterfuge and political treason. When a student at Cambridge, he became one of a group that included Kim Philby and Guy Burgess. As his cousin begins to piece together Theo's hidden life, he discover layer after layer of deceit. The fourth novel by this English film director (among them 'The L-Shaped Room,' 'Of Human Bondage,' and 'The Stepford Wives' ), award-winning screenwriter, actor and even a bookshop owner. 474 p

474 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Bryan Forbes CBE (born John Theobald Clarke) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist, described as a "Renaissance man" and "one of the most important figures in the British film industry".

He directed the film The Stepford Wives (1975) and wrote and directed several other critically acclaimed films, including Whistle Down the Wind (1961), Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964), and King Rat (1965). He also scripted several films directed by others, such as The League of Gentlemen (1960), The Angry Silence (1960) and Only Two Can Play (1962).

Forbes wrote two volumes of autobiography and several successful novels, the last of which, The Soldier's Story, was published in 2012.He was a regular contributor to The Spectator magazine.