Lionel White

Gebundenes Buch

The Killing

Beschreibung

Johnny Clay, an ex-con determined to strike it rich, has worked out a foolproof scheme to knock off a racetrack payroll. Two million bucks should be enough to last him a lifetime or two. But a two-faced dame has another idea: Let Johnny do the work, then she'll take it for herself and her boyfriend. Originally published in 1955 under the title Clean Break. Basis for the 1956 Stanley Kubrick film.

Autor

Lionel White (1905-1985) was an American journalist and crime novelist who special-ized in dark, noirish stories. Many of his books were eventually made into movies. White had been a crime reporter and began writing suspense novels in the 1950s. He wrote more than 35 books and was best known as what a New York Times review called "the master of the big caper."White's novels included Clean Break (adapted into the 1956 film The Killing), The Snatchers (made into a 1969 film as The Night of the Following Day). Seven years after White's death, director Quentin Tarantino credited him, among others, as an inspiration in his 1992 film Reservoir Dogs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Black Curtain Press
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9781515425243
• ISBN-10: 151542524X
• Artikelnr.: 52449735