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Tokyo Doll de John McPartland

Tokyo Doll

Autor John McPartland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mai 2013
I found my love, a tall golden girl, in the cruel, thousand-angled city that was Tokyo, mid-occupation, death-hungry for Mate Buchanan.I am Buchanan.Mate Buchanan, that is, ex-G.I., court marshal and all, sent to this treacherous town on a mission, literally, of life-or holocaust for the world at large.The golden girl is Sandra Tann, the one they call the Witch of Tokyo. The first time I saw her, three men were trying to burn her to death.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781627551724
ISBN-10: 1627551727
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Black Curtain Press

Notă biografică

John McPartland (1911-1958) was an American novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and paperback crime writer associated with the hard-boiled and noir tradition of the 1950s. Many of his novels appeared as Fawcett Gold Medal paperback originals, including Big Red's Daughter, Tokyo Doll, Face of Evil, The Wild Party, Danger for Breakfast, and I'll See You in Hell. His fiction often moves through the seamy underworld of urban and suburban America, with plots involving romantic obsession, criminal pressure, drug trafficking, vice, violence, espionage, and social corruption.McPartland's work has remained of interest to readers of vintage paperback originals, classic noir, hard-boiled crime, and mid-century American popular fiction. His better-known mainstream novel No Down Payment was adapted into a 1957 film directed by Martin Ritt, while The Wild Party and other works also reached the screen, reflecting the cinematic energy and social edge that run through his fiction. For readers drawn to Gold Medal crime novels, postwar noir, California crime fiction, and the darker currents of 1950s paperback publishing, McPartland remains a sharp and distinctive voice.