The Actor
  • Published:
    Jan-2025
    Jan-14-2025 (Release)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Mystery
  • Pages:
    400
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Donald E. Westlake's lost masterpiece MEMORY, adapted for the screen as THE ACTOR.

“An unsparing look at a man adrift, it's a fitting final dispatch from a master.” -- Time

"Terse and bleak and low-key emotional… indelible." -- Entertainment Weekly


THE CRIME WAS OVER IN A MINUTE " 
THE CONSQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME

Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul's facing steep odds " and a bleak fate if he fails…

This final, never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man's struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.
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    • First Edition
    • Jan-2025
    • Titan (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1803367741
    • ISBN13: 9781803367743
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    • Nov-2023
    • Hard Case Crime
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Jan-2025
    • Titan (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 180336775X
    • ISBN13: 9781803367750



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