The Adversary
A Novel
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
Shortlisted for the 2023 BMO Winterset Award • Longlisted for the 2024 Killick Capital Fiction Award, part of the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards
Named Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker • The Globe and Mail • CBC • Toronto Star • Kirkus Reviews
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Innocents, a dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption.
“A FLAWLESSLY CRAFTED NARRATIVE” —Wall Street Journal
“CEASELESSLY ENTERTAINING” —Kirkus (Starred Review)
“A MASTERPIECE” —Publisher's Weekly (Starred Review)
”ONE OF OUR BEST WRITERS” —Booklist (Starred Review)
In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a…