The Getaway (crime Masterworks)

ISBN: 9780752847689
Author: Jim Thompson
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The story of a bank robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double-cross, told with the unflinching eye of America's greatest crimewriter, THE GETAWAY is a Dante-esque tour of the underworld, a place where no motive is pure and no tie is too sacred to be betrayed in a nightmarish split second. About the Author B Anadarko, Oklahoma, 1906, d. 1977. Author of 29 novels and 2 screenplays (both for Stanley Kubrick – THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY). Films based on his novels include COUP DE TORCHON (POP.1280), SERIE NOIRE (A HELL OF A WOMAN), THE GETAWAY, THE KILLER INSIDE ME, THE GRIFTERS and AFTER DARK, MY SWEET.

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