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Product Details

  • Paperback: 174 pages
  • Publisher: Black Mask (August 2, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1596545747
  • ISBN-13: 978-1596545748
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.4 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,876,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsWhite Creates A Crew Of The Most Unforgettable Characters
By Dave Wilde on March 20, 2013
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Johnny Clay had spent four long years in the joint, four long years plotting the best crime ever imagined. It was going to be foolproof. He wasn't going to recruit a bunch of hoods who would turn on him and squeal. No. he was going to get a bunch of ordinary guys who had every reason to pull the caper off and get away clean. "They all have jobs, they all live seemingly decent, normal lives. But they all have money problems and they all have larceny in them."

Johnny was but one of a crew of absolutely unforgettable characters White created in this book.

Four years hadn't changed Johnny much. There was now the slightest of gray over his ears, but his gray eyes were as clear and untroubled as they had always been. The time behind bars hadn't soured him, but he now had a "serious undercurrent to him which hadn't been there before" and "a sort of grim purposefulness which he had always lacked."

Marvin Unger was a court stenographer. He had connections and information. He had a bank account. Johnny had found him when he was looking around for a guy with a respectable front, "who had a little larceny in his heart and who might back the play."

Big Mike Henty was a bartender at the track. "He was an inveterate gambler and in spite of endless years of consistently losing more than half of his weekly pay check on the horses, he still had a great deal of difficulty where he stood at the close of the last race. He had no mind for figures at all." "Big Mike was a moral and straight-laced man, in spite of a weakness for playing the horses and an even greater weakness for over excess in eating." He wanted desperately to get his family out of the crappy neighborhood they lived in and have his daughter safely ensconsed in a suburban school district.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsDid clean break make a killing?
By Brian A. Glennon on November 8, 2002
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"Copyright (c.)1955 by Lionel White. THE KILLING was originally published under the title CLEAN BREAK." The book, THE KILLING (c. 1988) by Lionel White, is a tightly written 155 page 'caper' novel that combined several personal stories together leading to a slightly anti-climatic ending, all into eleven short chapters.
The author, Lionel White, must be credited for originating the non-linear story telling technique he used for the interplay of several disparate characters cooperating succesfully for a two million dollar robbery of a racetrack, during a major sweepstakes race, in broad daylight.
Surprisingly well written and containing an articulate but streetwise writing-style, THE KILLING is the story of thirty-six year old career criminal Johnny Clay, who conjured-up in his mind a race track robbery during his four year stint in prison for larceny, and while out on parole, placed his theory into practice. Recruiting five key 'inside' figures to pull off his heist, Johnny Clay then sub-contracted three professional hoods, outside of his amateur entourage, to perform necessary and unique diversions.
Johnny Clay's inner circle included: George Peatty, a track cashier; Big Mike, race club bartender; Marvin Unger, a court stenographer with important connections; and Randy Kennan, city police officer and life-long friend of Johnny.
The out-of-sequence, anti-structure idea of THE KILLING began in chapter eight, as Johnny Clay recruited Nikki, a hit man, who would shoot the lead race horse, 'Black Lightening', from a parking lot in his MG, using a 30.06 scoped rifle with silencer, and after the lot attendent brought him a program, the bit of suspense would end as Nikki drove off the lot, unharmed, mission accomplished.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsWasn't my thang
By Matthew Snope on April 21, 2016
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Just couldn't get into it. It's no doubt well-written, but I found it ploddingly slow and just couldn't connect with it. Sorry.
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4.0 out of 5 starsEntertaining and fast paced
By Ronald J. Jackson on April 10, 2015
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I was assigned this book in a film noir class and really enjoyed it! It was a fun read with a great noir twist.
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