Böcker av Richard Jessup

NIGHT BOAT TO PARISPost war life in England hasn't been kind to Duncan Reece. So when Boyler offers to pay him to retrieve a special bit of microfilm that the Reds also want to get ahold of, he accepts the top secret mission. The film shows the plans for a nuclear-powered space station and there have already been men murdered for it. Reece is no longer a patriot, but Boyler isn't looking for a patriot-he's looking for a thief.So Reece puts together a team: Tookie, an American ex-GI who has the contacts; Otto Lorenz, a former Nazi known for his efficiency; Samaur, a French giant of a man, for muscle; and the Della Vichia brothers, Gino and Marcus, the guns. The man with the film is hosting an exclusive charity ball at his French estate, and all Reece has to do is commandeer it, steal all the money and jewels... and somehow in all the excitement, find the film-and escape-without letting his team know what he's up to. Because one of them is a traitor.

The Cincinnati Kid, first published in 1963 (and made into a feature film starring Steve McQueen in 1965), is a gritty novel of smoky back-rooms and centered on a young card-shark ("The Kid") who eventually finds himself in a stud-poker game against the undisputed master ("The Man"). From the first edition dust-jacket: "By the time he was twenty-one, he was a full rambling-gambling man, a three river man. . . . From Jolly's Omaha Card Club on the Missouri, to Spriigi's Emporium in Wheeling on the Ohio, down to Big Nig's in Memphis on the Mississippi, he was known as The Cincinnati Kid, a comer, with a way about him."