Forever And A Death

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Forever And A Death
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… A Fortune in Stolen Gold …A Device That Will Kill Millions …And Just One Man Can Stop It!

This novel began life as a draft screenplay for a James Bond movie, but it was eventually rejected. Westlake went ahead and wrote it up anyway, but it wasn’t published until 2017, a decade after his death.

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The Knife Slipped

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Lost for more than 75 years, this was meant to be the second Cool and Lam book but got shelved when Gardner’s publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool’s tendency to “talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people.” The cover is a brand new painting by Robert McGinnis of modern-day pin-up icon Dita von Teese

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