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Hard Case Crime
April 2015
On Sale: April 7, 2015
240 pages
ISBN: 1781167923
EAN: 9781781167922
Kindle: 1781167923
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ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION, EGYPT IS A TINDERBOX.
WILL ONE AMERICAN LIGHT THE SPARK THAT SETS IT ABLAZE?
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.
In 1953, Vidal had already begun writing the works that
would launch him to the top ranks of
American authors and intellectuals. But in the wake of
criticism for the scandalous content of
his third novel, The City and the Pillar, Vidal turned to
writing crime fiction under
pseudonyms: three books as “Edgar Box” and one as “Cameron
Kay.” The Edgar Box novels were
subsequently republished under his real name. The Cameron
Kay never was.
Lost for more than 60 years and overflowing with political
and sexual intrigue, Thieves Fall Out
provides a delicious glimpse into the mind of Gore Vidal in
his formative years. By turns
mischievous and deadly serious, Vidal tells the story of a
man caught up in events bigger than
he is, a down-on-his-luck American hired to smuggle an
ancient relic out of Cairo at a time when
revolution is brewing and heads are about to roll.
One part Casablanca and one part torn-from-the-headlines
tabloid reportage, this novel also
offers a startling glimpse of Egypt in turmoil -- written
over half a century ago, but as
current as the news streaming from the streets of Cairo today.
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