About the Author

Donald E. Westlake is generally regarded as the greatest writer of comic crime fiction of all time. Many of his books have been made into movies, including The Hot Rock, Bank Shot, Cops and Robbers, and The Hunter, first filmed as the noir classic Point Blank with Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson and then as Payback, starring Mel Gibson. He has won three Edgar Allan Poe Awards and has been named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. He and his wife live in New York.

Reviews

"Raucously funny." - Kirkus Reviews "A high-spirited farce." - The Washington Post

Raucously funny. - Kirkus Reviews A high-spirited farce. - The Washington Post