run for the money

By Scott Corbett

Asked to deliver a mysterious package an unlikely sleuth discovers he has almost abetted a ring of thieves. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B002KI58UC
• ISBN13: 9780316157070
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co.
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A neglected classic

All I have to say is "wow". This novel is, as was stated in The Houston Post, a "table-turning yarn." My tables were certainly turned, over and over again. Corbett's mastery of the thriller genre has put such writers as Ludlum and King to shame. This post-apocolyptic tale of neo-classical stamps and "post"-moderism should be put up on a lofty pedestal with other authors such as Kant, Sartre and Bongo. The character of Fox-Face is reminicent of Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov and Byron's Child Herald, reborn and recast in a powerful new light. Just to give a taste of the brilliant workings of this literary giant, let us take a look at a passage of this luminous and effervescent work:And I quote:"He could never bear to have his glasses."I have to pause...it is too much for my mind to absorb in one sitting. "He could never bear to have his glasses anything but spotless and gleaming. This was not because he was fussy about dirt. It was merely part of his burning desire to see everything as clearly and as well as possible. Furthermore, whenever he became excited about anything his face grew red and hot, and that made his glasses mist over."This is an obvious reference to Henry James' Glasses', specifically Chapter 11"The future in short assumed a new complexion for him whenlooked at through the grim glasses of a bride who, as he had saidto some one, couldn't really, when you came to find out, see herhand before her face."The idea of knowledge being obscured, despite the apparent magnifier of the "glasses" or whatever the sexual metaphor may be. This is but a taste of what Corbett is offering his readers. I leave the rest to you.