{"id":37756,"date":"2024-11-21T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T22:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37756"},"modified":"2024-11-21T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T22:07:41","slug":"the-actor-by-donald-westlake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37756","title":{"rendered":"THE ACTOR by Donald Westlake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/40Yi8jN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z112124theactor_westlake.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"762\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/40Yi8jN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE ACTOR<\/a> by Donald Westlake sounds like a winner&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE<\/p>\n<p>Donald E. Westlake&#8217;s lost masterpiece MEMORY, adapted for the screen as THE ACTOR.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAn unsparing look at a man adrift, it&#8217;s a fitting final dispatch from a master.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 Time<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Terse and bleak and low-key emotional\u2026 indelible.&#8221;<\/em> \u2014 Entertainment Weekly<\/p>\n<p><em>THE CRIME WAS OVER IN A MINUTE \u2013<\/em><br \/>\n<em>THE CONSQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hospitalized after a liaison with another man\u2019s 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\u2019s facing steep odds \u2013 and a bleak fate if he fails\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This final, never-before-published novel by three-time <em>Edgar Award winner<\/em> <strong>Donald E. Westlake<\/strong> is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man\u2019s struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>THE ACTOR drops on January 14, 2025.\u00a0 Preorders are available now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ACTOR by Donald Westlake sounds like a winner&#8230; NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Donald E. Westlake&#8217;s lost masterpiece MEMORY,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37757,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756\/revisions\/37757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}