He goes to meet Andes who tells him he has cancer and six months to live. He receives a call from Andes telling him that Ray is about to be set free. Tony at last feels like he can move on with his life and begins a relationship with one of his former grad students. Though Ray denies any knowledge of the crime, Tony feels he is mocking him and at one point is overcome with rage and hits him in the face. Andes brings Tony with him to pick up and identify Ray and, after Tony makes a positive I.D., Andes takes them on a trip to the scenes of the crime. He learns that all three men had been involved in a robbery and that Turk was shot to death. a man and this time he is able to identify Lou as one of the men complicit in the murders of his wife and daughter. Sometime after Andes again calls Tony to I.D. The lead detective on the case, Bobby Andes, calls him in to identify a possible suspect, but when Tony cannot positively identify a man who turns out to be Turk, Andes seems to lose interest in the case. He begins to blame himself for not doing enough to prevent their rapes and murders.įor a year after the murders Tony falls into depression. In retracing his steps with the state troopers, he discovers Laura and Helen’s naked bodies in the clearing where he had been abandoned. Walking to a farmhouse he manages to call for help. Tony is then driven to a clearing and abandoned there. The cars end up bumping each other and the leader of the men, Ray, gets in the car with Laura and Helen and drives off with them. Deciding to drive all night to get to Maine they are accosted by three men in a truck, Ray, Lou, and Turk, who begin blocking the path to their car. Nocturnal Animals is about a meek mathematician named Tony Hastings on his way to his country home in Maine with his wife, Laura, and teenage daughter, Helen.

Susan and Edward’s relationship had dissolved 25 years earlier in part thanks to him abandoning his studies to be a lawyer to pursue a writing career and Susan is surprised to find that he is still writing.Īfter putting off the manuscript for months she reads it in the course of three nights after learning that Edward will be passing through her city soon. In 1990, Susan Morrow is surprised to hear from her estranged ex-husband, Edward, who sends her a manuscript to his novel, Nocturnal Animals. How could such a harrowing story be told by the man she once loved? And why, after so long, has he sent her such a disturbing and personal message…? A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods a thrilling chiller of death and corruption. Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. The novel that inspired the 2016 major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge.

Tony and Susan by Austin Wright