The Actor (Hard Case Crime)

“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 CONSEQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME

Hospitalised 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 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.

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