The Most Powerful Tailor in the World [Abridged, Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Michael Crichton (Author), Frederick Forsyth (Author), T. Coraghessan Boyle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1996

"The Most Powerful Tailer in the World" by Michael Crichton
(1-56740-500-2 01A)
"Used in Evidence" by Frederick Forsyth (1-56740-500-2 01B)
"King Bee" by T. Coraghessan Boyle (1-56740-500-2 01C)
"Yossarian Survives" by Joseph Heller (1-56740-500-2 01D)
"A Midsummer Daydream" by Donald E. Westlake (1-56740-500-2 01E)

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Michael Crichton's "The Most Powerful Tailor in the World" is a fantastic opener for the Playboy fiction series. David Dressel's announcer-like baritone tells the quirky story of a tailor/terrorist who threatens the White House and the scientist who saves the day. In "Used in Evidence", Dale Hull's light Irish brogue fleshes out the setting of a construction site murder mystery. Bill Weideman plays the range of emotions and characters in "King Bee" by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the disturbing story of an adopted boy obsessed with beesÉand killing his parents. Catch-22's lost chapter is regained in Joseph Heller's "Yossarian Survives", wherein Steve Yankee brings to life the hero's witty attempt to avoid army exercise. Finally, justice is served--sort of--in Westlake's clever tale (performed admirably by David Colacci) about a criminal being accused of a petty crime he didn't commit. R.A.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Playboy Audio; Abridged edition (September 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567405002
• ISBN-13: 978-1567405002
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #382,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Short Story IS an Art Form all its own., July 6, 2010

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This review is from: The Most Powerful Tailor in the World (Audio Cassette)

THE MOST POWERFUL TAILOR IN THE WORLD: THE BEST OF PLAYBOY FICTION: An anthology of short stories published in Playboy the best of which is
THE MOST POWERFUL TAILOR IN THE WORLD a very early work by Michael Crichton about a man who has the power to set things on fire with his mind and is blackmailing the United States
and
USED IN EVIDENCE by Frederick Forsyth..a clever murder mystery set in Dublin about which I will say nothing except recommended.
and then there is
KING BEE by T. Coraghessan Boyle. A nasty story that uses the torture death of a small dog as a dramatic trick and which I personally cannot stomach. Different tastes might think otherwise.

YOSSARIAN SURVIVES by Joseph Heller a lost chapt from CATCH 22. If you think that book was anything more than a childish piece of 60s counterculture literary masterbation then this is for you.

A MIDSUMMER DAYDREAM by Donald Westlake. An amusing Damon Runyon style trifle about the box office robbery in upstate NY in which a thief on the lam is falsely accused thus putting him in the odd position of playing detective.