"About an hour after I met Tony Hobbs, he saved my life. Iknow that sounds just a little melodramatic, but it' the truth. Or, at least, as true as anything a journalist will tell you."

Sally Goodchild is a woman whose entire life is turned upside down in a very foreign place where they speak her language — London.

A thirty-seven-year-old American journalist, she suddenly finds herself pregnant and married to an English foreign correspondent, Tony Hobbs, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo.

From the outset Sally's relationship with both Tony and London is an uneasy one — as she finds her husband and his city to be far lore foreign than imagined. But her problems soon turn to nightmares when she discovers that everything can be taken down and used against you...

A Special Relationship isn't just a compulsive, chilling story of one woman's descent into a very personal hell; it is also a brilliant depiction of a marriage coming asunder, and a shrewd account of tryind to find your way in a most complex and ambiguous city. The acclaimed author of such major international bestsellers as The Big Picture and The Pursuit of Happiness has written a remarkable novel about how things can so easily fall apart. Unnerving and unputdownable, it is one of those rare books that is both a great read and a great portrait of the way we live now.