Nightwork

Nightwork

by IrwinShaw (Author)

Synopsis

Douglas Grimes, penniless ex-pilot, is waiting for the future to start living again. A fortune in cash by a dead body in New York City brings opportunity. Miles Fabian, debonair, jet-set con-man, shows the way...Fast cars, fancy hotels, fancier woman. St Moritz, Paris, Florence,Rome Racehorses, blue movies, gambling, gold. Wild and woolly schemes, all wonderfully profitable. But the day of reckoning must dawn. Who will appear to claim the stolen money? And when?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 05 Aug 1996

ISBN 10: 1857994485
ISBN 13: 9781857994483
Book Overview: *A fast-paced, totally compelling novel from one of America's foremost 20th century authors/ *'From the first page. Irwin Shaw is off and running well. The story never flags' NEW YORK TIMES *A most engaging Crimnal Record mixing money, sex and highlife...crisp,funny and tantalizing'SUNDAY TIMES *Irwin Shaw at his storytelling best..humour..excitement...romance..fun all the way PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *Published alongside Irwin Shaw's bestselling EVENING IN BYZANTIUM

Author Bio
Irwin Shaw was born in New York in 1913 and began his literary career writing short stories, and plays for the stage and radio. During World War Two he served in North Africa, the Middle East and all over Europe, and it was after the war that he achieved widespread acclaim with his first novel, The Young Lions. Irwin Shaw wrote more than a dozen novels, all of which became worldwide bestsellers. A number of his books have also found success as feature films and TV serials, and they have been translated into twenty languages. Irwin Shaw died in 1984.