title: The Distance
author:  Helen Giltrow 
description: Fast, hard, and very, very good. <br />  Lee Child, internationally bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers<br /><br />This page-turning novel gives the term <i>thriller </i>a good name. . . . While I was reading it I frequently had to remind myself to breathe. <br />  Nancy Pearl, NPR Books<br /><br />Satisfyingly high-concept. . . . A hair-raising expedition into a dark world of layered duplicities, captured with stylish prose and a breakneck pace. <br />  Chris Pavone, <i>New York Times</i>bestselling author of<i>The Expats</i>and<i>The Accident</i><br /><br />A riveting debut. <i>Publishers Weekly<br /></i><br />A truly unusual thriller. . . . Original and thought-provoking.<i>The Sunday Mirror (UK)</i><br /><b><i><br /></i></b>
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations,
  places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s
  imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons,
  living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2014 by White Stack Limited
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division
  of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada
  Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House companies. Originally published in
  Great Britain by Orion Books, Ltd., an Hachette UK company, London.
  
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  Jacket design by Evan Gaffney
  
  Jacket photograph © Nathaniel Goldberg/Trunk Archive
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Giltrow, Helen.
  
  The distance : a novel / Helen Giltrow.—First U.S. edition.
  
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