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Memory

By: Donald E. Westlake
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
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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 to even 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.

©2010 Donald E. Westlake (P)2010 BBC Audio
Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense

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"[T]his is no typical Westlake novel; in fact, in many ways it’s one of his most interesting books, simply because it’s so very different. For his fans, absolutely a must-read." ( Booklist)
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This novel has such a poignant and powerful baseline of dark nuisance that perpetually permeates the page with a baseline of urgency. Westlake has managed to write a near perfect narrative, with a blank canvass of a protagonist he delicately paints passage by passage with a deft strokes of scenery, nuanced with menace!

Read well also, it’s a must-read for anyone who enjoys noir crime fiction, that’s been elevated by literary design of the highest order!!!

A true masterpiece of Noir subtly

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