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The multi-award-winning, widely-acclaimed mystery master Donald E. Westlake delivers a masterpiece with this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing. Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search -- with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding area who could take the job that rightfully should be his, and systematically kills them. Transforming himself from mild-mannered middle manager to ruthless murderer, he discovers skills ne never knew ne had -- and that come to him far too easily.
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The Ax, Donald E. Westlake
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
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- Titel
- The Ax
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Donald E. Westlake
- Verlag
- Mysterious Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 273
- ISBN10
- 0892965878
- ISBN13
- 9780892965878
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Abenteuer, Abenteuerliteratur
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The multi-award-winning, widely-acclaimed mystery master Donald E. Westlake delivers a masterpiece with this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing. Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search -- with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding area who could take the job that rightfully should be his, and systematically kills them. Transforming himself from mild-mannered middle manager to ruthless murderer, he discovers skills ne never knew ne had -- and that come to him far too easily.