Getaway, The (Crime Masterworks)

Description: The story of a bank robbery and its aftermath, of cross and double-cross, told with the unflinching eye of America's greatest crimewriter, THE GETAWAY is a Dante-esque tour of the underworld, a place where no motive is pure and no tie is too sacred to be betrayed in a nightmarish split second.

Author Biography: B Anadarko, Oklahoma, 1906, d. 1977. Author of 29 novels and 2 screenplays (both for Stanley Kubrick - THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY). Films based on his novels include COUP DE TORCHON (POP.1280), SERIE NOIRE (A HELL OF A WOMAN), THE GETAWAY, THE KILLER INSIDE ME, THE GRIFTERS and AFTER DARK, MY SWEET.

#5 in the Crime Masterworks series - a library of the finest crime novels and thrillers ever written Filmed twice - by Sam Peckinpah, with Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw, and most recently with Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin, THE GETAWAY is perhaps Jim Thompson's most famous novel 'Jim Thompson is the best suspense novelist going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMES 'Read Jim Thompson and take a tour of hell' NEW REPUBLIC