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The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospital, it was a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead. Then things started to get bad. From the mind of the incomparable Donald E. Westlake comes a devastating story of betrayal and revenge, an exploration of the limits of family loyalty and how far a man will go when everything he loves is taken from him.

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Author Donald E. Westlake was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 12, 1933. He attended colleges in New York, but did not graduate. He wrote more than 100 novels and 5 screenplays throughout his lifetime. He also wrote under numerous pseudonyms including Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, and Samuel Holt. Almost 20 of his novels were adapted into films and he created the television series, The Father Dowling Mysteries. He is a three-time winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for The Grifters. He was also named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master in 1993. He died of a heart attack on December 31, 2008 at the age of 75.

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Ray Kelly musters out of the air force and meets his father in New York City; on the drive upstate, Ray's dad is shot dead at the wheel. Now that's a first chapter! Recovering from his own injuries, Ray discovers that his brother Bill's wife has been killed, too. Someone is out to get the family, but why? Ray and Bill return to the city and start digging, finding some truly twisty answers. This tale of a revenge-obsessed son qualifies as a respectable rediscovery. Random House published a hardcover in 1962, and aside from a British paperback and a couple of translations, it's been out of print ever since. The title, 361, refers to the numbered entry in Roget's Thesaurus for Destruction of life; violent death, which sounds like the title a pulp publisher picks when he has run out of ideas. But it's ironic, because this early effort (which hints at the humor Westlake would later develop) boasts the classic hard-boiled style: prose so clean it's like Hemingway threw away his thesaurus. Well worth an evening. --Keir Graff Copyright 2005 Booklist

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These volumes introduce the Hard Case Crime line, which replicates the inexpensive, pocket edition (each measures 4" x 6.5") of hard-boiled pulps sporting lurid covers of tough guys and hot dames. The authors run the gamut from vintage gods like Gardner to the early work of current top mystery men Block, Collins, and Westlake. Absolute gangbusters! (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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