Title | : | The Actor |
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Author | : | Donald E. Westlake |
Release | : | 2025-01-14 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Mysteries & Thrillers, Books, Hard-Boiled Mysteries, Fiction & Literature |
Size | : | 2208593 |
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. |