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NO changes have been made to the original text. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Jacket spine head small chip and tear, price clipped elese very good in a near fine jacket. This book takes a terrible risk in pinning itself to the too-fashionable film noir genre, but the atmosphere is thick and accurate, the story solid, the mood bittersweet, and the gamble pays off handsomely. Dewey wants him, and, it turns out, the beautiful Cindy wants him. And everyone that he meets seems to want a piece of Lew for one bad reason or another. Lew is drawn deeper and deeper into Max and Terry's warring world of crime and closer and closer to the seductive Cindy. When they finally make it out of the hospital, Lew with a limp and Terry with an unremoved slug, they are permanently out of the war. On the same day that the Japs bomb Pearl Harbor, Cassidy takes a tackle that ends his playing career and while he is in the hospital recuperating, Terry takes a couple of slugs from the gun of a grief-crazed homosexual and nearly dies. Bauman, a generous and likable crook, also seems to own Lew's longtime best friend Terry teary, a fast-rising NYC detective with a taste for the high life. Lew Cassidy, a professional football player whose wife is trapped in Nazi Germany, finds himself captivated by Cindy Squires, the gorgeous mistress of Max Bauman, the gangster who owns Cassidy's team. A first suspense novel, openly built on a base of film noir, that's a tough and smart story of love, loyalty, and betrayal in New York in WW II years. Royal octavo (0 1/4' x 6') bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with silver lettering to spine over purple boards in original pictorial jacket.

Kiss Me Once Again by Laura Marie Altom