Nobody Lives Forever
Soldiers of Fame and Fortune Book 2

W. R. Burnett is largely forgotten today although he was arguably one of the most influential of American hardboiled crime writers. He achieved success with both his novels (the most famous being Little Caesar and High Sierra) and screenplays. He often adapted his own novels for the screen, a notable......more

Wow, some hardcore WWII-era pulp, a story about conmen and their victims, aging players looking for one last score. Three low-rent loser conmen have got a sucker lined up, Mrs. Gladys Halvorsen, but they are smart enough to know that she is out of their league. So they turn to Jim Farrar and his lawy......more

if anyone was watching turner movies in april, you had the chance to see john garfield and geraldine fitzgerald and walter brennan in a story 'adapted' from a book by w.r. burnett. the ending was so stupid that i thought i would check out the book. my library had to get a copy from very far away for......more

This is good Burnett -- sort of High Sierra meets Asphalt Jungle, as the themes of a group coming up with the perfect caper merge nicely with tale of an aging con man coming to the end of his career. At times, particularly in the first half, the writing is reminiscent of Jim Thompson, as we spend a......more