He thought heartbreak was the worst part.
Then came the need for revenge.
Patrick Tyrrell’s perfect marriage shatters the day his husband, Barney, leaves him—for a woman.
Marcella. Beautiful. Alluring. Dangerous.
Patrick can’t let it go. Why her? Why now? The questions consume him — until obsession turns to something far darker.
As unsettling events unfold and violence creeps closer, Patrick faces the one
temptation more powerful than love or jealousy: Revenge.
But revenge has its own price. And once it begins, there may be no way back.
A taut, unsettling psychological thriller about betrayal, obsession, and whether vengeance ever truly
heals the wound — or only feeds it.
Paul Clayton is a familiar face on screen, best known for his roles as Sophie’s dad in
the BAFTA-winning Peep Show and Graham in the acclaimed Him & Her.
Currently, he appears as Drew Peacock in EastEnders, Dennis in Disney’s sequel to The Full Monty and has featured in Brian
and Margaret, Wolf Hall, House of the Dragon, and over 300 stage and screen roles. He’ll be seen in the new ITV thriller Secret Service, and in Season 3 of House of the Dragon
Beyond acting, Paul is an internationally recognised creative event director and sought-after presentation coach. His previous thrillers, The Punishment and The Hoax, have gripped readers, while
his books for actors—So You Want to Be a Corporate Actor? and The Working Actor (both published by Nick Hern Books)—offer invaluable industry insight.
He lives in London with his partner.
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My thoughts: This gets pretty dark, Patrick and Barney have some nasty secrets and the things that start happening to Marcella after Barney tells Patrick about her are nasty too. Although no one can prove Patrick’s behind them.
The end of a relationship can be messy – you tend to know more about the other person than anyone else and it can quickly get very personal, with every slight, mistake and row revisited and rehashed. Barney and Patrick aren’t perfect, they haven’t always been honest with each other and the resentments start to surface as they painfully begin to untangle their life together.
They seem to bring out the worst in each other, and their happy marriage is really anything but. But that’s before a Russian with a gun and a grudge shows up, and then things start getting even worse. Only one of them will survive the break-up from Hell. But who?
Darkly comic, verging on the absurd, full of vengeance and bitterness, you can’t really like either of them but Patrick is particularly monstrous and I loved him, he absolutely does not care about anything else except revenge, is completely unhinged, and self-centered. I’d probably loathe him if he were real but he’s so awful I couldn’t help but secretly root for him, even if that makes me a terrible person too.
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