Provenance
A thriller
Everyone she interviewed told a slightly different version of the same man. She thought that was the story. It was the trap.
Maya Reyes is a freelance journalist who is tired in the way freelance journalists are tired — which is to say, tired about money. So when her editor hands her the profile of the year, twenty thousand words on Adrian Vale, she takes it. Vale is the kind of subject nobody has ever laid a glove on: charming, precise, a face like a stock photo, a past that everyone remembers a little differently.
The deeper Maya digs, the more the versions stop lining up. A name here. A missing year there. A story about where a fortune came from that changes depending on who's telling it. She thinks she's chasing the contradictions. She doesn't realize the contradictions are chasing her — and that the most dangerous thing you can do to a man who has controlled every version of himself is start writing the one he can't.
Provenance is a tautly plotted literary thriller about ambition, reinvention, and the price of the truth in an age when everyone gets to author themselves.
For readers of Megan Abbott, Tana French, and Jean Hanff Korelitz.
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