Título: Killer Take All
Autor: Philip Race
Sinopse: They called him Johnny Berlin and he had an instinct for cards, for trouble for dames. Hed dealt at all the biggest tables in Reno and Vegas. Hed told the head of the gambling syndicate to go to helland repeated the message to his hired killers. Hed had women throwing themselves at him at every turn and he loved it. That was Johnny Berlin. Who would have thought hed find the dice loaded against him in a peanut-sized town off a back road in northern California? Who would have thought hed fall for a nice girl? And who would have thought hed risk his life for her? Nobodyleast of all Johnny Berlin himself. On his way from San Francisco, Johnny gets lost in the fog while driving the coastal route to Portland, Oregon. Stopping to get directions from a stranger turns out to be deadly, when that strangera dangerous racketeerturns up dead and Johnny is pegged as the killer. Now itll take all his smarts and toughness to save himself and the woman he loves.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Killer Take All”, de Philip Race, publicado pela editora Digital Vintage Pulps, em 2010 e com 236 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Digital Vintage Pulps
Páginas: 236
Ano: 2010
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1936456095
ISBN13: 9781936456093