A Dangerous Life, Volume 1: Sewermen, Bank Robbers & the Revelations of the Prince of Fire

By: MacKinnon, David

Voodoo killers, Bank Robbers & Sewermen: True tales from the life and times of Blaise Cendrars, the world's greatest vagabond features seven Cendrars works: The Sewerman of London: a tale of a secret passage leading to the Bank of England, gleaned from a fellow legionnaire while trapped in the trenches of the Great War; River of Blood (J'ai saign ): the 1st-hand narrative of the killing fields of Champagne, and the day in 1916 he lost his writing hand to a German machine-gunner; F bronio: Cendrars' chilling and compelling interview with Brazil's most infamous serial voodoo killer; The Diamond Circle: the tale of the discovery of a diamond with a curse; Hip-flask of blood (Bidon de sang): translation by Cendrars of an unpublished spaghetti-western novel by the bank robber lawyer Al Jennings; Le Saint Inconnu (The Anonymous Saint); Anecdotique: On Saint-Exup ry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771839228
• ISBN13: 9781771839228
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Length: 200 Pages