Thirteen days ago I made a mistake. A momentary slip, but enough to launch me into freefall, a life unraveling in my wake. There Lewis Penn's story begins. A rising young lawyer at a prominent London firm, Lewis has a problem: while working on a deal for a Ukrainian company, he mistakenly takes a file containing sensitive information-potentially devastating to the Ukrainians if it becomes public, and career-ending for Lewis if his mistake is revealed. As he tries to undo his misstep, Lewis's calculated deceptions drag him by increments into a deeper, more perilous hole, culminating in a frantic trip to America during which he leaves a woman, badly injured, at the side of the road. The only person Lewis believes he can trust with the truth is his brother, Dan, who is dying in a hospice back in England. But Lewis soon discovers that Dan has been telling his own lies. Lewis's predicament forces him headlong into Dan's secret life, and into a psychological labyrinth of his own making, where it becomes impossible to tell fact from fiction. As the brothers' lives and illusions blur, and then unravel, their deceptions are revisited upon them with stunning consequences. An addictive study of a modern everyman driven to desperate extremes, The Immortal Part marks the arrival of a fresh new voice in literary suspense. Read Less