- Mystery, Criminals, Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Together with a tough young drifter named Jack Ryan, hedonistic Nancy Hayes plans her private revenge on a former lover by stealing a fifty thousand dollar payroll.
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Classical in form, spare, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 235
- Publisher
- The Crowood Press, Dell, Popular Library
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780922890026
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Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. *--Wikipedia*
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