The Actor (Hard Case Crime)

ISBN: 1803367741

Author: Westlake, Donald E.

Condition: Used

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREDonald 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 WeeklyHospitalized after a liaison with another mans 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, Pauls facing steep odds-and a bleak fate if he fails...This never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a mans struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.