Envy the Night

Michael Koryta

Thorndike Press, 2008 - Fiction - 543 pages

Three months before his high school graduation, Frank Temple III joins the rest of the world in learning of his father's covert career, which culminated in suicide to avoid prosecution. After seven years of drifting, still unable to believe his beloved father was entirely in the wrong, Frank receives a message: the man who lured his father into the killing game and later gave him up to the FBI is returning to the Wisconsin lake that was once home to both families.

About the author

While still in high school, Michael Koryta worked as a newspaper reporter and for a private investigator. His first book, Tonight I Said Goodbye, was published when he was twenty-one years old and an undergraduate at Indiana University. It won the Great Lakes Book Award for best mystery. Envy the Night won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery/thriller. He is the author of the Lincoln Perry series and teaches at the Indiana University School of Journalism. Koryta's book Those Who Wish Me Dead made the Nwe York Time bestseller list in 2014.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Envy the Night; Thorndike Press large print thriller; Thorndike Thrillers
• Author: Michael Koryta
• Edition: reprint, large print
• Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2008
• ISBN: 1410411087, 9781410411082
• Length: 543 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Crime; Fiction / Family Life / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Psychological; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense