THE CHAMELEON’S SHADOW

Book ID/图书代码： 05430007B16969

English Summary/英文概要： When British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change: he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or it may be, as his psychiatrist suggests, “the prolonged destruction of a personality.”
Though previously well adjusted and known as an extrovert, Acland now withdraws into himself. As he begins his recovery in a dismal provincial hospital, crippled by migraines and suspicious of his doctors, he grows uncharacteristically aggressive—particularly against women, and most particularly against his ex-fiancée. Finally, rejecting medical advice to undergo cosmetic surgery—opting, instead, to accept his disfigurement—and cutting all ties to his former life, he moves to London. There, alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a quagmire of guilt and paranoia—until an outburst of irrational, vicious anger brings him to the attention of the local police: they are investigating three recent murders, all of them apparently motivated by the kind of extreme rage that Acland has exhibited.
Now under suspicion, Acland is forced to confront the issues behind his desperate existence before it’s too late: Has he always been the duplicitous chameleon that his ex-fiancée accuses him of being? Can he control this newly apparent sinister side of his personality? And why, if he truly hates women, does he in the end seek help from a woman—someone as straightforward and self-disciplined as he is unsure and seemingly out of control—to repair the damage to his mind?
In its timeliness, its psychological complexity, and its unstoppable suspense, The Chameleon’s Shadow is a thriller of the first order.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当英国查尔斯.阿克兰中尉从伊拉克返回时，头部严重受伤，他可能患有创伤后应激障碍，也可能如心理医生所说，“对性格会造成长期的重创”。

虽然先前接受过调整，一直以来也都很外向，但阿克兰现在变得离群索居。当他开始在医院接受接受康复治疗的时候，可能是因为终日忍受偏头痛的折磨，性格变得疑神疑鬼而且异常好斗，特别是针对女性，尤其是他的前未婚妻。最后，他拒绝了进行整容手术的医疗建议，而是接受了这一缺陷—他切断了与先前生活的所有联系，只身移居伦敦。在那里过着孤独、不受约束，他陷入了悔恨和偏执的泥潭。直到有一天，他的过激的行为引起了当地警方的注意：警察正在调查最近发生的三起谋杀案，案件显然是经过极端残忍的谋划，而这一特点正是阿克兰的身上所呈现出来的。 现在成为嫌疑犯，阿克兰被迫在一切还没太晚时，开始审视自己的行为：真如前未婚妻所说他一直都是一个表里不一的变色龙吗？他能够控制极端的行为吗？而且，如果他真的痛恨女人，为什么在最后接受一个女人对他心里创伤的治疗呢？

紧扣心弦，悬念迭起，《变色龙的阴影》（The Chameleon’s Shadow）将带给你绝对震撼的惊险和刺激。(Claire)

Awards/获奖情况：“A gripping crime tale…Walters leads us to the answer with her usual disturbing ability to look into damaged minds.” The Times
“Walters does so much more than produce tense crime thrillers. She confronts the social issues of the day, many of them sensitve and some of them distasteful…This is another page-turner from Minette Walters and another novel which will deservedly take its place on the bestseller list.” Sunday Express
“A disturbing and fascinating thriller.” The Spectator
“Walters has clearly done her homework. Characters and behaviour feel so real, you can imagine them operating in the real world, not just their well-drawn fictional one. If you want to lose yourself in a book this weekend, buy this and find a quiet corner to devour it in. You won’t regret it.” Evening Telegraph
“Engrossing thriller.” Belfast Telegraph
“Minette Walters is one of those rare commodities: a highly successful female crime writer who also happens to be British…The Chameleon’s Shadow builds tempo steadily throughout and – with its insights into psychology, double lives and supporting characters including a female weight-lifting lesbian doctor – it is certainly original.” Daily Express
“No wonder she is the country’s bestselling female crime writer. But even this label does not exactly do justice to the scope and breadth of her gripping, terrifying novels. The Chameleon’s Shadow is another classic.” The Mirror
“A remarkable, almost hypnotic, book which pulls off the incredible trick of making the reader care for disturbed and on the surface highly dislikeable people. To do this takes rare skill.” Mike Ripley
“Another intelligent, smoothly plotted novel from one of our most interesting crime writers.” Susanna Yager

About the Author/作者介绍： 米尔特.沃尔特(Minette Walters) 1949年出生于英国，从小喜欢阅读社会新闻，37岁时开始写作罪案小说。著有十二部长篇小说，两部中篇小说以及很多短篇故事，作品被翻译成二十多种文字，出版于三十五个国家，并陆续被BBC改编成一系列电视影集。获得的重要奖项有两项英国犯罪作家协会（Crime Writers’ Association）银匕首奖（Gold Daggers），美国推理作家协会（Mystery Writers of America）埃德加爱伦坡奖（Edgar Allan Poe Award）和麦卡维帝奖，囊括了大西洋两岸象征罪案小说最高荣誉的所有可能奖项，是当之无愧的“罪案小说女王”。

Minette Walters is the author of twelve previous novels, two novellas, and a number of short stories. Her work, which has been published in more than thirty-five countries, has received several major awards, including two Gold Daggers from the Crime Writers’ Association in Great Britain and the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Dorset, England.

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