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The getaway

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The story of a bank robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double- cross, told with the unflinching eye of America's greatest crime writer.

When it comes to pulling off the perfect bank job, Doc McCoy wrote the book.

But with a partner like Rudy Torrento, who is not only treacherous but insane, and a wife who is still an amateur, McCoy has forgotten something: when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no such thing as a clean getaway.

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075287960X / 9780752879604
Paperback / softback
813.54
03/08/2006
United Kingdom
English
Modern crime
169 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: U.S.: s.n., 1958; London: W.H. Allen, 1972.
THE GETAWAY is perhaps Jim Thompson's most famous novel. It was filmed in 1972, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw, and re-made in 1994, when it starred another glamorous couple, Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin. Jim Thompson is one of the most respected and acclaimed crime writer: 'My favourite crime novelist - often imitated but never duplicated - is Jim Thompson' Stephen King. 'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' New York Times. 'Read Jim Thompson and take a tour of hell' New Republic. 'If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Cornell Woolr
THE GETAWAY is perhaps Jim Thompson's most famous novel. It was filmed in 1972, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw, and re-made in 1994, when it starred another glamorous couple, Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin. Jim Thompson is one of the most respected and acclaimed crime writer: 'My favourite crime novelist - often imitated but never duplicated - is Jim Thompson' Stephen King. 'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' New York Times. 'Read Jim Thompson and take a tour of hell' New Republic. 'If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Cornell Woolr FF Crime & mystery