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A groundbreaking, multi-part narrative about a plot to rob a racetrack on its busiest day of the year, using one criminal mastermind, and several ordinary people.
The heist comes up smooth, but things go awry when one of the regular guys involved tells the wrong person.
Stanley Kubrick liked the story so much, he optioned the rights, hiring Jim Thompson as screenwriter to produce noir classic "The Killing."

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1375400 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

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A groundbreaking, multi-part narrative about a plot to rob a racetrack on its busiest day of the year, using one criminal mastermind, and several ordinary people. The heist comes up smooth, but things go awry when one of the regular guys involved tells the wrong person. Stanley Kubrick liked the story so much, he optioned the rights, hiring Jim Thompson as screenwriter to produce noir classic "The Killing."

Customer Reviews

Great book, not-so-great edition
Great book, not-so-great edition. This edition must have been made from a scanned original transformed into text, because there are a lot of typos, weird letter & symbol combinations and a few incomplete sentences. This distracts from the reading experience, but I guess since it's out of print anyway I was glad to at least be able to read it in this format. Anyone looking for a copy of this for their collection though should try to find an original edition.