It takes only a few pages for red flags to mount in Christopher Bollen’s latest thriller, “Havoc.” When we meet Maggie Burkhardt, the pandemic is raging and, for the previous three months, the 81-year ...

Christopher Bollen’s penchant for creating unique characters, then placing them in vividly explored exotic locations, again shines in the commanding “Havoc.” "Havoc," by Christopher Bollen.

Rarely has there been a less reliable narrator in fiction than Maggie Burkhardt, the 81-year-old protagonist of Christopher Bollen’s profoundly unsettling “Havoc.” Past Bollen novels have recalled ...

Patricia Highsmith’s dark spirit hovers over much of Christopher Bollen’s “A Beautiful Crime.” Highsmith, who wrote “Strangers on a Train” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” was a master crafter of ...

Christopher Bollen’s new novel, The Destroyers, is a decadent romp through the high crimes and lowly misdemeanors of the one percent of the one percent, a glimpse at an ultra-rarefied world of excess ...

THE DESTROYERS. By Christopher Bollen. Harper. 496 pages. $27.99. Here’s one way to distinguish literary fiction from genre fiction: In genre writing, the action is in the plot; in literary, the ...

Christopher Bollen’s The Lost Americans captures the atmosphere of paranoia and surveillance in Cairo. The Lost Americans captures the atmosphere of paranoia and surveillance in the years since 2013.

“My agent gave me the best advice,” Christopher Bollen confides over coffee at Cafe Luxembourg on the Upper West Side, “which is to always start the next book before a new one comes out. If it's a ...

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