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Forever and a Death by Donald E. Westlake (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTitan Books The Limited
ISBN-101785654233
ISBN-139781785654237
eBay Product ID (ePID)234686327
Product Key Features
Book TitleForever and a Death
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense
Publication Year2017
GenreFiction
AuthorDonald E. Westlake
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-289114
ReviewsThe orange wetsuit, that gun pose, the comma of hair above the eye - stop twisting my arm, Hard Case!" - Birth. Movies. Death
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisThe Bond Film That Never Was Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up - about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule - had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead - a novel he never published while he was alive. Now, nearly a decade after Westlake's death, Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel its first publication ever, together with a brand-new afterword by one of the movie producers describing the project's genesis, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been. " Great fun to read...and speculate on what a Westlake-written Bond movie might have been like. A newly discovered novel by one of the true grand masters of the genre is always a cause for celebration. " - Booklist, A formerly rich businessman thrown out of Hong Kong when the Chinese took over from the British decides to fix his dire financial problems and take revenge on the Chinese by tunneling under Hong Kong's bank vaults and stealing all their gold, then using a doomsday device to set off a "soliton wave" that will turn the ground to sludge, causing the whole city to collapse. Only the engineer on his staff who designed the soliton wave technology (intending it for good purposes, to help with construction projects) can stop him, working together with a beautiful young environmental activist who gets caught up in one of the soliton tests and nearly killed. From the deck of a yacht near the Great Barrier Reef to Australia and Singapore and finally Hong Kong itself, it's a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as our heroes first struggle to escape the villain's clutches and then thwart his insanely destructive plan., The Bond That Never Was Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up - about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule - had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead - a novel he never published while he was alive. Now, nearly a decade after Westlake's death, Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel its first publication ever, together with a brand new afterword by one of the movie producers describing the project's genesis, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been.
LC Classification NumberPS3573.E9
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- 07 Apr, 2024
Excellent read.
Very nice book. Thanks.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 23 Jan, 2019
Great Westlake mystery
Love the bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
