I read the second line: Leon Fields eats shit and likes it.ĭisgusting, I said. "Then where did that come from?" He looked back at the fake proposal on the desk. He looked over the papers and then looked back up at me. This is exactly what I put on your desk this morning. He had calmed down a little and was sitting in his big leather chair. I ran back to my desk, printed out the proposal, checked it, and brought it back to Leon’s office. I felt like I had stepped into a bad dream. Three people said they saw you go to the printer, print this out, and bring it to my desk. I sifted through the papers on his desk for the proposal I had dropped off.
What are you talking about? I put the proposal on your desk, not this, the proposal for the new job. Leon handed me the papers and I read the first line: Leon Fields is a cocksucking faggot. It looked like my proposal-same heading, same format. He picked up a handful of papers off his desk and stared at me, his flabby face white with anger. Later that morning Leon threw open his office door with a bang. I finished the proposal on a Friday morning and dropped it on his desk with a cheerful little note- Let me know what you think!-while he was in a meeting with a new client in the conference room. We were renovating a clothing store in a strip mall outside the city. IN JANUARY I HAD A proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Dataġ. Is she possessed by a demon, or is she simply insane? Described as “a new kind of psychological thriller” by George Pelecanos and “this year’s scariest novel” by Time Out New York, Come Closer has become a modern classic “with a kick that will stay with the reader for days afterward” ( The Dallas Morning News). The new voice in Amanda’s head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she’s doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. Amanda-a successful architect in a happy marriage-finds her life going off kilter by degrees. A memo to her boss that’s replaced by obscene insults. Hypnotic” (Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho).Ī recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. “What begins as a sly fable about frustrated desire evolves into a genuinely scary novel about possession and insanity.
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