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      The Actor

      by Donald E. Westlake
      Published
      Feb 2025
      Main Genre
      Mystery Mystery
      Pages
      400
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      THE ACTOR: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANDRE HOLLAND, GEMMA CHAN, TRACEY ULLMAN and TOBY JONES

      Donald E. Westlake's lost masterpiece MEMORY, adapted for the screen as THE ACTOR.

      "An unsparing look at a man adrift, it's a fitting final dispatch from a master."—Time

      "Terse and bleak and low-key emotional… indelible."—Entertainment Weekly

      THE CRIME WAS OVER IN A MINUTE – 
      THE CONSQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME

      Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul's facing steep odds – and a bleak fate if he fails…

      This final, never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man's struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.

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      Hard-Boiled Mystery

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