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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Donald E. Westlake
Published: 01/28/2025
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
ISBN: 9781803367743
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 1.10″ H x 7.70″ L x 5.10″ W
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.
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