奧斯丁·懷特（Austin Wright），生於紐約，美國知名小說傢、學者，1985年美國懷廷文學奬獲得者。懷特生前為辛辛那提大學英語教授，著有7部長篇小說和4部文藝理論著作。《夜行動物》（Tony＆Susan）是他生前最後一部作品，自1993年齣版後便引發廣泛關注，在美國多次再版，經久不衰。

2016年，素有“天纔設計師”、“鬼纔跨界導演”之稱的湯姆·福特將《夜行動物》改編成同名電影，以富有張力的空間和色彩，將故事中懸疑、驚悚的情緒渲染得淋灕盡緻。同年9月，電影《夜行動物》斬獲威尼斯電影節評委會大奬，隨後接連入圍金球奬和英國電影學院奬的最佳改編劇本奬，在評委和觀眾中深受好評。

THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOM FORD'S NEW FILM, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND AMY ADAMS

"A SUPERB AND THRILLING NOVEL...EXTRAORDINARY." -- Ian McEwan

"COMPELLING...MESMERIZING...ABSOLUTELY IRRESISTIBLE."--New York Times

"A PERFECT LITERARY PUZZLE, AN IRRESISTIBLE TALE ABOUT MARRIAGE AND MURDER, BOTH THRILLING AND MOVING."--Scott Turow

"A PAGE-TURNER OF A LITERARY THRILLER."--Sara Waters

"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, PERFECTLY PACED, IMPRESSIVELY CLEVER, AND ULTIMATELY SHOCKING IN A WAY YOU NEVER SEE COMING."--Nelson DeMille

"ABSOLUTE TERRIFYING, BEAUTIFUL, AND APPALLING. PARTS OF IT SHOCKED ME, AND I AM NOT EASILY SHOCKED."--Ruth Rendell

Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says.

As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. And as we read with her, we too become lost in Sheffield's thriller. As the Hastings' ordinary, civilized lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, and driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future and will change her life.

TONY AND SUSAN is a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel about fear and regret, blood and revenge, marriage and creativity. It is simply one of a kind.