Touch of Evil
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Book Overview
This powerful novel, on which Orson Welles based his famous 1958 film, is a sleek, dark indictment of the American justice system--an original American masterpiece. Masterson looks at corruption in society and shows how it taints all of us.--Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0881848867
ISBN13:9780881848861
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:Carroll & Graf Publishers
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"
Customer Reviews
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Book different than the movie
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Having seen the Orson Welles directed movie, I recently bought a copy of this book. I was surprised at how different the original story is from the film. In the book, the main character is a district attorney in San Diego, not a narcotics officer from Mexico. And while Charlton Heston plays the Mexican officer in the film who's married to an American, in the book the DA is married to a Mexican woman. Also, the film takes place in a Texas town near the US-Mexico border while the book takes place (although not actually named) in San Diego. While the film is a masterpiece because of Wells' direction, the book remains a more believable story.
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