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THE CRIME WAS OVER IN A MINUTE—
THE CONSEQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME

Hospitalized after a liaison with another man’s 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 faces steep odds—and a bleak fate if he fails...

This noir masterpiece (originally published as Memory) by three-time Edgar Award-winner Donald E. Westlake—an Academy Award nominee for the screenplay of The Grifters—will soon be a major motion picture starring Andre Holland (Moonlight) and Gemma Chan (Crazy Rich Asians).

• This extraordinary unpublished novel was discovered after the death of best-selling novelist Donald E. Westlake
• Westlake was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, the organization’s highest honor

"One of the great writers of the 20th Century."

— Newsweek

"The novel’s deeper meditations will keep you thinking long after you’ve closed the book."

— USA Today