Masquerader (Version 2)

In the London fog, a dangerous game begins. When Jack Chilcote, a charismatic MP with a brilliant political future, collides with John Loder, a bitter man whose ambitions have come to nothing, both men are shaken by their identical faces. One could step into another's life. What begins as uncanny coincidence becomes something far more sinister: a pact of substitution, of stolen identities, of two men living each other's lies. The political personal becomes terrifyingly intimate. Thurston, who died tragically at thirty-six, wrote a novel that aches with Edwardian unease about selfhood and ambition. It has been filmed four times because the premise is irresistibly dark: not merely can two men look alike, but what happens when the lesser man has everything to gain and the greater man has everything to lose? A propulsive, psychologically acute thriller about the masks we wear and what happens when someone else wears yours.