One Endless Hour

by Dan Marlowe

Overview

One of the most unusual hard-boiled novels, this story traces the efforts of the brutally effective bank robber in Dan Marlowe's The Name of the Game is Death to recover from devastating fire damage to his face and resume his career. One Endless Hour begins with a summary of the end of The Name of the Game is Death, but quickly moves on to a tale that is both peculiar and nerve-wracking. The protagonist, who calls himself Earl Drake, hooks up with a gambling addict named Preacher Harris and a pornographic film maker named Dick Dahl to try to pull off a huge, complex heist that even he fears will fail.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940032878773
Publisher:	Dan Marlowe
Publication date:	11/18/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	237 KB

About the Author

Dan J. Marlowe (1914-1986), a master of the gun-and-fist suspense novel, has been called "hardest of the hard-boiled" by no less a figure than bestselling horror writer Stephen King. King dedicated his 2005 novel, The Colorado Kid, to Marlowe. In 1967, The New York Times' Anthony Boucher called Marlowe one of the country's top writers of original softcover suspense, numbering him with such authors as John D. MacDonald, Brett Halliday, Donald Hamilton, Richard Stark (a pseudonym for Donald Westlake), and Edward Aarons. Alone and in collaboration, Marlowe wrote more than 25 thrillers. Some of his best work featured an amoral bank robber, Earl Drake, who later morphed into a rebellious but effective secret agent.