Flight into Terror - White, Lionel
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Dal Brandon is a man on the verge of leaving his wife. He's tired of his life and plans to leave for Chicago. He's minding his own business when a stranger steps up to him on the street and asks for a light. Dal gets out his lighter-and all hell breaks loose. The stranger is shot dead and Dal is slugged. From there on in the action never lets up for a second; it's fast-moving entertainment all the way. In Lionel White's "Flight into Terror," Dal Brandon, an ordinary man, stumbles upon a briefcase containing $100,000. When his wife is murdered, Dal, already planning to leave her, decides to use…mehr

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Dal Brandon is a man on the verge of leaving his wife. He's tired of his life and plans to leave for Chicago. He's minding his own business when a stranger steps up to him on the street and asks for a light. Dal gets out his lighter-and all hell breaks loose. The stranger is shot dead and Dal is slugged. From there on in the action never lets up for a second; it's fast-moving entertainment all the way. In Lionel White's "Flight into Terror," Dal Brandon, an ordinary man, stumbles upon a briefcase containing $100,000. When his wife is murdered, Dal, already planning to leave her, decides to use the money to track down her killers and avenge her death. The plot thickens as a pretty woman with revolutionary plans, a doubting policeman, and other questionable characters enter the mix, making Dal's journey a dangerous one. The New York Times reviewed Lionel White's Flight into Terror as a "forgotten classic" and praised him as "the master of the big caper".
Autorenporträt
Lionel White (1905-1985) was an American journalist and crime novelist who special-ized in dark, noirish stories. Many of his books were eventually made into movies. White had been a crime reporter and began writing suspense novels in the 1950s. He wrote more than 35 books and was best known as what a New York Times review called "the master of the big caper."White's novels included Clean Break (adapted into the 1956 film The Killing), The Snatchers (made into a 1969 film as The Night of the Following Day). Seven years after White's death, director Quentin Tarantino credited him, among others, as an inspiration in his 1992 film Reservoir Dogs.