COMEDY IS FINISHED

The MWA Grand Master and award-winning author of more than 100 books and screenplays great lost novel here in glamorous Hard Case Crime hardback. Under his famous pen name Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake wrote the acclaimed Parker crime novels that inspired movies such as Point Blank and Payback. In 1977, aging comedian Koo Davis gets kidnapped by five members of the People's Revolutionary Army who want to revive their cause. Koo, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American troops in the field, is the perfect person to bring this cause back to life. America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam, and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Very much a product of the 60s radicals era, they demand ten hostages released and air passage to Algeria. There are meditations on family, government, modern society, sex and the possibility of love and understanding in this bleak thriller. 351pp, fairly large print.