Fragment of Fear - John Bingham

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ \This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist.... What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal landscape of his characters, acutely observed by a humane but wonderfully corrosive eye.\ \On a recuperative trip in Italy after a car accident, reporter and novelist James Compton is witness to the discovery..