Petrol gauge broken, anxiety and tempers flaring, young lovers Rex and Saskia pull in at a service station on their way to a holiday the South of France to refuel. As soon as they stop the tension is relieved. Rex buries two coins in a crack at the base of fence post as a secret sign of their love: Saskia goes off to buy a couple of cold drinks and vanishes. Eight years later Rex is still haunted by her. Then one day he sees scrawled in the grime on the roof of a yellow car parked below his window two lines: REX YOU ARE SO ...
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Petrol gauge broken, anxiety and tempers flaring, young lovers Rex and Saskia pull in at a service station on their way to a holiday the South of France to refuel. As soon as they stop the tension is relieved. Rex buries two coins in a crack at the base of fence post as a secret sign of their love: Saskia goes off to buy a couple of cold drinks and vanishes. Eight years later Rex is still haunted by her. Then one day he sees scrawled in the grime on the roof of a yellow car parked below his window two lines: REX YOU ARE SO SWEET SANDRA and WHEN I WRITE THIS IT SHOWS THE PAIN...And the obsession rages in his blood again.
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New York. 1993. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 067941973x. Translated from the Dutch by Claire Nicolas White. 108 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Translated Dutch Mystery. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Rex Hofman's nightmare begins when his young lover, Saskia Ehlvest, mysteriously disappears at a gas station in central France, not far from Dijon. Rex is left behind in the parking lot, waiting faithfully at the car, wondering what happened to her, until he has nearly lost his mind. Was she abducted? Raped? Killed? The police investigation yields nothing, and Rex is compelled to unravel the disturbing mystery on his own. Tormented by his memory of her, unable to forget her or fully accept her disappearance, he launches a full-blown international missing persons campaign that completely engulfs his life. inventory #18772.
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