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Havoc

By Christopher Bollen

This deliciously nasty tale of resentment and revenge is set in a hotel in Egypt, where an elderly woman who enjoys secretly meddling in the lives of others has set up residence during Covid. The arrival of another guest — a boy of 8 who can match her, diabolical deed for diabolical deed — threatens to destroy her carefully constructed spider web of intrigue. Bollen writes with wit and style about an increasingly unhinged battle of wills between two unlikely opponents.