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The 12th of Never
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Murray Jarvis, broke, persuades Steven Breck, a terminal cancer patient, to exchange identities with him; Breck, as Jarvis, will die, and Rachael Jarvis will inherit a considerable insurance claim. But a perfect plan becomes a deadfall; in Switzerland, Jarvis is recognized by an old girl friend; in Scotland, Breck is given the hope of an arrest (medical) by a doctor and life becomes doubly valuable when Rachael falls in love with him.... Heyes is an incisive, ironic writer and he handles this uneasy menage a trois so that the only certainty is death-but whose? and the reader will read on, ineluctably.
KIRKUS REVIEWS:
a complex melodrama about a dying doctor who—on the verge of his committing suicide—is approached by a stranger willing to pay him to switch identities.
Murray Jarvis, broke, persuades Steven Breck, a terminal cancer patient, to exchange identities with him; Breck, as Jarvis, will die, and Rachael Jarvis will inherit a considerable insurance claim. But a perfect plan becomes a deadfall; in Switzerland, Jarvis is recognized by an old girl friend; in Scotland, Breck is given the hope of an arrest (medical) by a doctor and life becomes doubly valuable when Rachael falls in love with him.... Heyes is an incisive, ironic writer and he handles this uneasy menage a trois so that the only certainty is death-but whose? and the reader will read on, ineluctably.
KIRKUS REVIEWS:
a complex melodrama about a dying doctor who—on the verge of his committing suicide—is approached by a stranger willing to pay him to switch identities.
182 pages
First published January 1, 1963
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