The Dangerous Edge
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Investigating the looting of the Nice bank in the 1954 French Riviera, a detective is baffled by the skill that went into the robbery and is drawn into a complicated web of mobsters, petty players, a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0671470574
ISBN13:9780671470579
Release Date:January 1983
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Length:411 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
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The best thriller I have read in many years.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Simply an amazing thriller. Daley, author of Prince of the City, the New York City police corruption classic takes you to a completely different time and place -- France after WWII, and makes you feel he's a native of the place. (Perhaps he is; if not, he is a masterful writer.) The story is reminicent of those elegant old "caper" movies on the Riviera -- not in the silly or frothy sense. It features a master criminal who commits a brilliant heist with a team of whom you root for and can't help admiring, despite his glaring flaws and mistakes. And a dogged French inspector, whom you also root for. The setting of post-WWII France features all manner of realistic details about the time and place, from the simmering resentment of the American rescuers of Europe to what became of all the fast, surplus PT boats after the war. This is one of those books that will make you want to run out and read everything you can find by the same author -- indeed, searching for new titles by Daley is how I ended up on this page.
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