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Read before you watch the movie based on this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing, from a multi-award-winning, widely acclaimed mystery master. "A novel of excruciating brilliance...engrossing and relentless and all too plausible." -- New York Times Book Review Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search.. With agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding area who could take the job that rightfully should be his, and systematically kills them. Transforming himself from mild-mannered middle manager to ruthless murderer, he discovers skills ne never knew he had -- and that come to him far too easily.
Author: Donald E. Westlake
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 12/23/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781538784822
About the Author
Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) was one of the most prolific and talented authors of American crime fiction. He began his career in the late 1950s, churning out novels for pulp houses--often writing as many as four novels a year under various pseudonyms--but soon began publishing under his own name. His most well-known characters were the unlucky thief John Dortmunder and a ruthless criminal named Parker. His writing earned him three Edgars and a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Westlake's cinematic prose and brisk dialogue made his novels attractive to Hollywood, and several motion pictures were made from his books, with stars such as Lee Marvin and Mel Gibson. Westlake wrote several screenplays himself, receiving an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of The Grifters, Jim Thompson's noir classic
Author: Donald E. Westlake
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 12/23/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781538784822
About the Author
Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008) was one of the most prolific and talented authors of American crime fiction. He began his career in the late 1950s, churning out novels for pulp houses--often writing as many as four novels a year under various pseudonyms--but soon began publishing under his own name. His most well-known characters were the unlucky thief John Dortmunder and a ruthless criminal named Parker. His writing earned him three Edgars and a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Westlake's cinematic prose and brisk dialogue made his novels attractive to Hollywood, and several motion pictures were made from his books, with stars such as Lee Marvin and Mel Gibson. Westlake wrote several screenplays himself, receiving an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of The Grifters, Jim Thompson's noir classic
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