No Sale by Patrick Conrad, translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Lynn "I can imagine no more fascinating adversary than a cinema-loving psychopath who knows as much about film as I do....My life makes sense once again because I can finally put all this useless accumulation of knowledge to some good use. I am playing the leading role in a film of which I do not know the screenplay." So writes Victor Cox, a distracted, exhausted, decent and retired 60-year-old … more