Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism, and ancient languages. Evocative, complex and beguiling, The Names is another major work from one of the 20th century's great prose stylists.

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself.

About the Author
Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra, and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.

Reviews
A serious and complicated novel which deserves praise . . . an outstandingly well-written and constructed book. * Guardian *
Compelling . . . strange and wonderful and frightening. * New Yorker *



Book Information
ISBN 9781529092103
Author Don DeLillo
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 294g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 32mm