
Clean Break
Lionel White(Author)
Chosho Publishing
Published on 3. March 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
178 pages
978-1-958425-51-0 (ISBN)
Description
Johnny Clay's plan to rob the Long Island race track was daring and highly original. Johnny, an ex-convict, had spent his prison years thinking through every possible hitch to his scheme until he was sure it could go off like clockwork.
His four confederates were not known to the police for they were not professional criminals. They had been picked because they were ordinary nondescript men, all with money problems and a touch of larceny in their hearts. Mike Henty was a bartender at the track and George Peatty a cashier, both essential inside men. Martin Unger, a court stenographer, had put up the initial cash and Randy Kennan, a cop, was to get the money away from the track after Johnny had done the actual robbing.
There were in addition three others who were to do a specific jobs for a cash payment. To one of these men fell the assignment of shooting the favorite in the famous Canarsie Stakes. Once this was accomplished, the robbery was set into motion.
The crime in this story is a grand coup, fantastic yet completely possible if everything clicked. So too has Lionel White achieved a grand coup in the telling of the story as he concentrates first on one character then on another, picking up the individual threads and building them into a brilliantly integrated climax. Clean Break is a masterpiece of originality, a highly plotted and ingeniously executed story of suspense.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-958425-51-0 (9781958425510)
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Lionel White (1905-1985) was an American author best known for his crime and suspense novels. Many of his works explored the planning and execution of complex robberies, emphasizing the human weaknesses and unforeseen events that can undermine even the most careful criminal schemes. His novel The Killing was adapted into the influential 1956 film directed by Stanley Kubrick, bringing White's work to a wider audience.