In Four Days, an orphaned boy watches as his older brother and idol graduates from petty thievery into big-league crime. A bank heist goes awry, leaving loose threads and dangerous links back to the brothers. Following instructions, the boy leaves the city with the stolen money and travels to a rendezvous point in a mountain vacation resort. What he doesn't know is that he is on his own, his brother will not show up--and the underworld is after him. Buell's second novel, Four Days was first published in 1962 by Farrar, Straus & Cudahy in the United States and Macmillan in the UK.
John Buell Reihenfolge der Bücher
John Buell lebte sein ganzes Leben in Montreal, wo er als Professor für Englisch und Kommunikationswissenschaften tätig war. Nach seiner Emeritierung wurde er zum Professor emeritus ernannt. Buells Romane, die oft die dunkleren Seiten der menschlichen Psyche und zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen erforschen, fanden Anerkennung für ihre scharfsinnigen Einblicke und fesselnden Erzählungen. Die anhaltende Kraft seines Erzählstils wurde weiter gewürdigt, als mehrere seiner Werke zu Spielfilmen adaptiert wurden.






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