Thieves Fall Out

Description

The lost pulp crime novel by great American novelist Gore Vidal! Hired to smuggle an ancient artefact out of Egypt, Pete Wells finds himself the target of killers and femme fatales - and just one step away from triggering a revolution that will set Cairo aflame! Thieves Fall Out employs the brisk, tongue-in-cheek tone of the Edgar Box novels. The cast of characters includes Hastings, "British subject, born to be hanged," and Helene, Contesse de Rastignac, "Parisienne, phony as a three-dollar bill, a lovely vulture." Laced with wry humor, the novel carries its suspense to an explosive climax: "Small wonder," says the back cover, "with a cutthroat crew like this on its register, the world-famed Shepheard's Hotel blew up."

Gore Vidal was one of America's greatest and most controversial writers. The author of twenty-three novels. five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays, he received the National Book Award in 1993.

"A hell of a lot of fun." -LitReactor "Pour yourself a pina colada and pretend you are baking in the Cairene sun." -Flavorwire "A gourmet tale with fast-food accessibility. It's so tasty I want to go see what else Vidal has on the shelf." -Noir Journal "It's the kind of curiosity that Hard Case Crime excels at producing: a peek into the formative years of a gifted and influential writer." -October Country