Korthuset

by Stanley Ellin

Paper Book, 1983

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

[Kbh.] : [Samleren], cop. 1983.

Description

Hired as a tutor for a madwoman's son, an American expatriate scraps to stay alive A washed-up heavyweight with dreams of becoming a writer, Reno Davis is down to his last franc when he lands a job as a bouncer at a sprawling Paris discotheque. His first night, he saves a slumming beauty from a pair of café toughs, and she rewards him with a well-paid job tutoring her darling son. But what she really wants is a bodyguard to keep her precious baby safe from terrors real and imagined. Reno's new boss is a mental case, paranoid and delusional, whose lovers have a bad habit of dying violent deaths. But in this case, her paranoia may be justified.   Protecting the boy draws Reno into an international conspiracy that stretches from Paris to Rome to the killing fields of northern Algeria. When the bullets start to fly, this ex-fighter begins to fear that he may be punching above his weight.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1967

Physical description

330 p.; 19.5 cm

ISBN

8756806914 / 9788756806916

Local notes

Omslag: John Ovesen
Omslaget viser en mand i skygge med en pistol i hånden
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra engelsk "House of Cards" af Vibeke Weitemeyer

Pages

330

Rating

½ (7 ratings; 3.9)

DDC/MDS

813.54
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