Johnny Clay's plan to rob the Long Island race track was daring and highly original. Johnny, an ex-convict, had spent his prison years thinking through every possible hitch to his scheme until he was sure it could go off like clockwork. His four confederates were not known to the police for they were not professional criminals. They had been picked because they were ordinary nondescript men, all with money problems and a touch of larceny in their hearts. Mike Henty was a bartender at the track and George Peatty a ...
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Johnny Clay's plan to rob the Long Island race track was daring and highly original. Johnny, an ex-convict, had spent his prison years thinking through every possible hitch to his scheme until he was sure it could go off like clockwork. His four confederates were not known to the police for they were not professional criminals. They had been picked because they were ordinary nondescript men, all with money problems and a touch of larceny in their hearts. Mike Henty was a bartender at the track and George Peatty a cashier, both essential inside men. Martin Unger, a court stenographer, had put up the initial cash and Randy Kennan, a cop, was to get the money away from the track after Johnny had done the actual robbing. There were in addition three others who were to do a specific jobs for a cash payment. To one of these men fell the assignment of shooting the favorite in the famous Canarsie Stakes. Once this was accomplished, the robbery was set into motion. The crime in this story is a grand coup, fantastic yet completely possible if everything clicked. So too has Lionel White achieved a grand coup in the telling of the story as he concentrates first on one character then on another, picking up the individual threads and building them into a brilliantly integrated climax. Clean Break is a masterpiece of originality, a highly plotted and ingeniously executed story of suspense.
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Add this copy of Clean Break to cart. $475.00, like new condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1955 by Dutton.
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Fine in near fine jacket. Small 8vo, red boards, d.w. (small scuff mark on the spine). New York: Dutton, 1955. First Edition. Made into the Stanley Kubrik film noir, "The Killing"
Add this copy of Clean Break to cart. $750.00, very good condition, Sold by Waverley Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Monica, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1955 by Dutton.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Firsrt edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (Top edge foxed. Half-inch tear at cret of spine on front cover. Trace of mild shelf-wear. Edge on front dust jacket flap trimmed, with no price clipping or loss to text. ) Basis for director Stanley Kubrick's film noir "The Killing." Uncommon.; 5 1/4" X 7 1/2"; 189 pages.
