The Actor

by Donald E Westlake

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THE ACTOR: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ANDRE HOLLAND, GEMMA CHAN, TRACEY ULLMAN and TOBY JONES

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.
  • ISBN10 1803367741
  • ISBN13 9781803367743
  • Publish Date 28 January 2025
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Hard Case Crime