MAN IN THE CORNER

Set in Sydney, this is the story of an identity theft. David, an ordinary man, recovers from a brain surgery. He falls for a shady character named Ben Strbic who seduces him into a fraud. David has to impersonate somebody else. And nobody must notice. This is a very special literary suspense debut by a promising young Australian writer.

When David's wife confesses that she was once a prostitute, the revelation doesn't disturb him - he considers it simply an error of youth. But the following night David collapses from a rare brain disease and within a few months his world is turned upside down. It was a perfectly acceptable life – successful business, happy marriage, two children. Why then has David involved himself in an identity-theft crime worth millions of dollars? Why is he taking instructions from the oddly eloquent, handsome criminal, Ben Strbic? David can't quite understand the sequence of events that has led him here, only that he must continue to the very end. As the days and months progress, a scam that was meant to be straightforward becomes a perilous mystery unfolding in David's very own life. Nathan Besser was born in 1981 in Sydney. He lives in Sydney with his wife and their 3 children. Nathan wrote poetry and short fiction from the age of sixteen. Man in the Corner is his first (published) novel, which has also been optioned for film by Simon Baker and Rebecca Rigg. He is currently working on another novel.