Description
THE ACTOR: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANDRE HOLLAND, GEMMA CHAN, TRACEY ULLMAN and TOBY JONES Donald E. Westlake's lost masterpiece MEMORY, adapted for the screen as THE ACTOR. "An unsparing look at a man adrift, it's a fitting final dispatch from a master."--Time "Terse and bleak and low-key emotional... indelible."--Entertainment Weekly THE CRIME WAS OVER IN A MINUTE -
THE CONSQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul's facing steep odds - and a bleak fate if he fails... This final, never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man's struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.
Author: Donald E. Westlake
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Published: 01/28/2025
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781803367743
ISBN10: 1803367741
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Hard-Boiled
- Fiction | Media Tie-In
THE CONSQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul's facing steep odds - and a bleak fate if he fails... This final, never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man's struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.
Author: Donald E. Westlake
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Published: 01/28/2025
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781803367743
ISBN10: 1803367741
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Hard-Boiled
- Fiction | Media Tie-In
About the Author
Donald E. Westlake is widely regarded as one of the great crime writers of the 20th century. He won three Edgar Awards and was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America. Many of his books have been made into movies; Westlake also wrote the screenplay for The Grifters for which he received an Academy Award nomination.