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Academy Award nominee Donald Westlake (The Grifters) returns with a never-before-published thriller based on his story for a James Bond movie that never got made with an afterword by Bond producer Jeff Kleeman. A formerly rich businessman thrown out of Hong Kong when the Chinese took over from the British decides to fix his dire financial problems and take revenge on the Chinese by tunneling under Hong Kong’s bank vaults and stealing all their gold, then using a doomsday device to set off a “soliton wave” that will turn the ground to sludge, causing the whole city to collapse. Only the engineer on his staff who designed the soliton wave technology (intending it for good purposes, to help with construction projects) can stop him, working together with a beautiful young environmental activist who gets caught up in one of the soliton tests and nearly killed. From the deck of a yacht near the Great Barrier Reef to Australia and Singapore and finally Hong Kong itself, it’s a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as our heroes first struggle to escape the villain’s clutches and then thwart his insanely destructive plan.

Following last year’s hilariously funny Dancing Aztecs, the prolific Donald E. Westlake now produces a pair of miniatures — two brief strokes of genius for the price of one — which is certainly ENOUGH for anybody. “A Travesty,” follows the twists and turns in the career of movie critic-cum-murderer Carey Thorpe, as he flails and connives his way through a plot so devious that it finally sums up the entire genre of the Mystery Story once and for all. Carey successively becomes the Detective’s Sidekick, the Least Obvious Suspect, the Amateur Detective, the Innocent Accused, several other detective story standbys, and ultimately the Murderer Himself. What happens to Carey when he accidentally kills his girlfriend (she shouldn’t have annoyed him) is as quick and twisty as a roller-coaster ride, an endlessly intricate Murder Mystery with a true Surprise at the finish. A fast and funny story, with enough cleverness and invention for two books, it is here only half the story of ENOUGH. Completing the abundance of ENOUGH is a total change of pace, “Ordo,” the sardonic brooding character study of Ordo Tupikos, a man dealing with an astonishment out of his own past. What would you do if you discovered the plain Jane you’d married (and divorced) sixteen years ago was now, under another name, Hollywood’s reigning movie star sex queen? What Ordo does, and what is done to him reach a level of power seldom found in comedy. A study in contrasts, ENOUGH displays a pair of totally different story styles from the same fertile brain. If you’ve never had ENOUGH, you have it now.

A dump truck and a boy are a perfect combination. All they need is a bit of dirt. But where do you find dirt if you live in an apartment seven floors above the ground? That is Philip’s problem — a problem he shares with thousands of boys. Philip does think of some ingenious ways of getting dirt, but he meets with adult disapproval at every turn. The unique and happy solution to his problem finally comes from Mr. Neep, the doorman. Mr. Neep’s solution is as clever and delightful as the whole story of Philip and his truck. Colorful illustrations by Arnold Dobrin show exactly how the city looks to a small boy who lives in it.

Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner is the story of Harry Künt, a practical joker who winds up in the state prison when one of his hoaxes accidentally injures two Congressmen. In the jail he meets seven tough cons with their own private tunnel into the prison town, making them the world’s first prisoner commuters.

Branson, Missouri, is the home of Country Music, USA. Its main drag is lined with theaters housing such luminaries as Roy Clark, Loretta Lynn, and Merle Haggard — but you’d better get there early because the late show’s at eight. Branson is one big long traffic jam of R.V.’s, station wagons, pick-up trucks, NRA decals, tour buses and blue-haired grandmothers. Now Branson just got a little bit more crowded Because the murder trial of country and western star Ray Jones is about to begin, and the media has come loaded for bear. The press presence ranges from the Weekly Galaxy, the most unethical news rag in the universe, to New York City’s Trend: The Magazine for the Way We Live This Instant. In the middle of the melee stands Ray Jones himself, an inscrutable good ol’ boy who croons like an angel but just may be as guilty as sin — of the rape and murder of a 31-year-old theater cashier. Sara Jaslyn, of Trend, isn’t sure about Ray. The sardonic Jack Ingersoll, her editor and lover, is sure of this much: this time he’s going to do an- exposé that will nail the Weekly Galaxy to the wall. A phalanx of reporters and editors from the Galaxy are breaking every rule, and a few laws, to get the inside story on Ray Jones’s trial. Meanwhile, the IRS is there, too. They want all of Ray Jones’s money, no matter what the jury decides. Set to the beat of America’s down-home music, as raucous as a smoke-filled hanky-tonk, as funny as grown men in snakeskin boots, BABY, WOULD I LIE? is a murder mystery, a courtroom thriller, a caper novel, and a classic Westlake gem.

У профессионального вора есть собственный кодекс чести, но он запросто отправит на тот свет любого, кто перейдет ему дорогу! Поэтому тем, кто осмелится его обмануть, эта попытка будет стоить очень дорого…

В сборник включены четыре романа известных мастеров детективного жанра: "Мы еще увидимся, крошка" Ш. Эксбрейа, "Взгляд на убийство" Ф. Д. Джеймс, "Убийца лучшего друга" Д. Уэстлейка, "Пожиратель женщин" Питигрилли. Все произведения объединяет острый, занимательный сюжет.

Джон Дортмундер прислуга? Не совсем, конечно, прислуга; он, скорее, играет свою роль в хорошо охраняемом особняке крючковатого магната Монро Холла. Будучи изгнанным из корпорации, он окружил себя целым флотом винтажных автомобилей, но вскоре Холл понимает, что у него появились новые потребности, — от вождения к готовке еды — которые Дортмундер и его банда охотно взялись выполнять. План Дортмундера заключался в следующем: одним махом избавиться от нынешней прислуги и заменить ее своими ребятами, а потом собраться и укатить с награбленным добром. Есть только одна проблема. У Монро Холла врагов столько же, сколько антиквариата. И прежде, чем Дортмундер успевает приступить к ограблению, Холл исчезает из своего особняка, и в это же время на пороге появляются копы. Совершено тяжкое преступление, и Дортмундер оказывается в самом худшем месте из возможных. Поскольку все знают: если в особняке происходит что-то плохое… всегда виновата прислуга!

In 1977, one of the world’s finest crime novelists turned his pen to suspense of a very different sort — and the results have never been published, until now. Fans of mystery fiction have often pondered whether it would be possible to write a suspense novel without any crime at all, and in CALL ME A CAB the masterful Donald E. Westlake answered the question in his inimitable style. You won’t find any crime in these pages — but what you will find is a wonderful suspense story, about a New York City taxi driver hired to drive a beautiful woman all the way across America, from Manhattan to Los Angeles, where the biggest decision of her life is waiting to be made. It’s Westlake at his witty, thought-provoking best, and it proves that a page-turner doesn’t need to have a bomb set to go off at the end of it in order to keep sparks flying every step of the way.

Когда Джон Дортмундер собирается ограбить банк, он действительно имеет это в виду. Он крадет все здание целиком. С помощью своей обычной команды, а также бывшего сотрудника ФБР — второкурсника и воинствующего медвежатника, Дортмундер ставит комплект колес под трейлер, который, как оказалось, является временной стоянкой корпорации «Доверие капиталистов и иммигрантов». Когда сейф не открывается и копы приближаются, Дортмундер понимает, что ему нужно найти место — где-нибудь в пригороде Лонг-Айленда — чтобы спрятать банк.

«Одна из самых забавных концепций ограбления, с которыми вы столкнетесь… Концовка веселая» (The New York Times).

Дизайн и изображение на обложке предложены англоязычным издательством.

Альберт Уайт получил в свои руки убийственные доказательства и намеревался пойти на шантаж, обезопасив себя самым надежным способом. Кто же мог подумать, что мера предосторожности обернется против него самого?

Когда влиятельный миллиардер Макс Фербенкс отбирает у забравшегося в его особняк на Лонг-Айленде Джона Дортмундера «кольцо удачи», он уверен, что имеет дело с жалким неудачником. В изобретательном комическом триллере Уэстлейка Фербенкс в конце концов вынужден пожалеть об унижении, которому он подверг вора. Дортмундер собирает группу друзей и наносит удар оскорбителю в его роскошных обиталищах - от пентхауса на Бродвее до фантастической гостиницы в Лас-Вегасе.

This collection of short fiction, selected by the author, spans a writing career of more than 40 years and illuminates the heart and soul of the antihero. A lone castaway on a desert island commits a murder for which he is the sole suspect. A genealogist learns just how far rotten apples fall from the family tree. A con man, impersonating a minister, finds religion. A tabloid journalist must solve a murder to complete his story on the death of a major television star, who happens to be a dog. A self-made widower discovers how hard it is to get rid of a wife, especially when she’s dead.

Can a peace-loving pacifist from a tiny downstate New York Village named Greenwich find happiness in the middle of a mob of dedicated assassins? This is the question our hero, J. Eugene Raxford, asks himself while ducking bullets, bombs, karate chops and-ultimately — swords, in this latest exploit on the rollicking edge of suspense from the author of The Fugitive Pigeon and The Busy Body. The answer to J. Eugene’s question, both hilarious and scarifying, will keep you simultaneously on the edge of your seat and rolling in the aisles, and if you think that’s a tough trick, wait till you see our hero pouring evaporated milk on the microphone in his refrigerator, or taking orders from his watch (it talks to him in a tiny tinny voice), or traipsing off into low adventure and high comedy with Angela Ten Eyck, the beautiful if not brilliant peacenik daughter of the world’s most pugnacious munitions manufacturer. Dragooned by a typographical error into as daffy a league for the destruction of the world as the world has ever seen, our hero is as disheartened as the FBI to discover that he and he alone is in a position to end the nefarious doings — from the inside. Given a crash program in spy survival techniques, J. Eugene Raxford is thrust into the breach, where he would have preferred not to have been honored. His adventures and escapes, the intricacy of the plot as slowly he unravels it and it unravels him, and the ultimate triumph of very good Good over absolutely villainous Evil, all add up to either the season’s most terrifying comedy or funniest hair-raiser, or maybe both.

«Византийский Огонь» — безупречный рубин 90 карат весом, с большим национальным и религиозным значением. Это самое большое ограбление в карьере Дортмундера, что делает его целью охоты всех, от агентов ФБР до турецкого правительства и собратьев-преступников. Теперь Дортмундер должен найти способ спасти свою жизнь…

«Он задержался перед домом Лири, посмотрел по сторонам, и тут в голову ему пришли слова, которые он где-то слышал: „Просчитанный риск“. Вот что лежало в основе его плана, если он сумеет его реализовать… Он чувствовал, как учащенно бьется его сердце, и коснулся рукой лежащего в кармане пистолета, чтобы добавить себе решимости…»

Levine is an episodic saga, a series of six novellas (including one written expressly for this volume) laying open for examination the life of a Brooklyn cop, a man dedicated to his job and living in constant fear of the moment when his ailing heart will finally stop. Each of the stories is a gem of police procedure and pits Levine against the full assortment of activities which makes up a policeman’s lot — from talking a jumper off a ledge to dealing with a child who believes her mother to be a murderer to facing a Mob gunman on a deserted spit of land. With every step Levine takes, with every confrontation, he listens to the sound of his own heart — to judge his actions as well as to record the missing beats, waiting for the one he won’t hear.

Едва Дортмундер вышел из тюрьмы, как ему предложили работу по профилю — его незаурядный талант планировщика и организатора потребовался, чтобы похитить выставленный в музее африканский изумруд. Задача сложная, но исполнимая… вроде бы — кто же знал, что возникнет столько сложностей?

There’s no doubt that Charlie Poole was a completely innocuous, lazy, ambitionless young man until the night two of his uncle’s friends came to murder him. Charlie tended bar in his uncle’s Brooklyn saloon and was perfectly happy to do so. There weren’t many customers, but his uncle didn’t seem to care. Uncle, as a matter of fact, had very good connections with the Syndicate, so Charlie passed messages and mysterious packages about whose contents he never asked questions. He simply didn’t care. He lived above the saloon in a small apartment and read most of the day. Nothing uplifting, mind you, just time-killing. This, then, was his happy life until it was rudely interrupted the night that two of the Syndicate’s enforcers came to enforce him out of the world. Charlie simply wouldn’t believe it at first; some mistake had been made. He had done nothing. He never had done anything. He would get to his uncle in Manhattan and find him and clear the whole thing up. His uncle would call somebody, and the two thugs downstairs would be redirected. Charlie suddenly realized that the two thugs were no longer downstairs. They were definitely clumping their way upstairs to the apartment where Charlie had run when he realized they actually meant to kill him. He then did probably the most energetic thing thus far in his twenty-odd years of life. He jumped out of the window. What happens from then on, and the way Charlie runs, his encounters with his uncle who very specifically does not help him escape, his own growing astonishment at the menace all around him, his encounters with the higher-ups in the Syndicate, his encounters with the police, and finally his encounter with Chloe, add up to a breathlessly fast-paced and very amusing mystery, with a rare antic quality. All in all, THE FUGITIVE PIGEON is a delight, and Charlie Poole is a living doll.

A castle is about to be dismantled and flown to Paris where it will be reassembled for an international exhibit of architectural styles. But a deposed South American dictator has hidden his entire fortune of cash, stocks, and jewelry inside twelve stones of the castle. Lida Perez, a sexy and fiery revolutionary who wants to get her hands on the loot to further her political cause, enlists the aid of British master-criminal Eustace Dench to mastermind the heist. And once again Donald Westlake perpetrates a criminally funny tale of international intrigue and hijinks.

Сборник «Thieves' Dozen» — 12 коротких рассказов о Дортмундере, написанных на протяжении многих лет.