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 thebook. But with a partner like Rudy Torrento, who is not only treacherousbut insane, and a wife who is still an amateur, McCoy has forgottensomething: when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no suchthing as a clean getaway.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781409130192
- Author: Jim Thompson
- Pub date: 22.07.10
- RRP: $31.99
- Format: Electronic book text
Author
Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant
childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office forembezzlement; and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s,Thompson became successful as a writer with the pulp fiction houses ofthe 1950s, writing a dozen of his more enduring novels in just 19 months.He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killingand Paths of Glory).Other books by the author
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