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Bryce Proctorr y Wayne Prentice se encuentran después de veinte años. Ambos son escritores. Wayne sólo ha publicado bajo pseudónimo, no vende ni un libro y tiene un manuscrito inédito con mucho gancho. Bryce, sin embargo, no puede escribir porque sufre un bloqueo creativo producido por su estresante divorcio, pero tiene un contrato multimillonario para su próxima novela. ¿Por qué no hacer un trato? Bryce publicará el texto inédito de su amigo bajo su aclamado nombre y repartirán al cincuenta por ciento los beneficios. Tan sólo impone una condición... Wayne deberá matar a su ex esposa. Historia de dos hombres que habitan en un mundo de ficción, entre la imaginación y la cruel realidad de la lista de los más vendidos, El gancho desvela brillantemente un engaño literario alimentado por la envidia, la cólera y la admiración. Cuando Wayne vende su alma a su viejo amigo, inicia un viaje hitchcockiano hacia las cosas que siempre deseó, aunque el precio que pagará será demasiado alto.
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Mystery, Deception, Novelists in fiction, Collaboration, Fiction in fiction, Novelists, Fiction, Authorship, Murder for hire, American Authors, Large type books, Fiction, general, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Journalists, fiction, Fiction, psychological, New york (n.y.), fiction, Thriller (littérature), American Novelists, Divorce, Attempted murder, Authors, fictionEdition | Availability |
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The Hook
November 2000, Sound Library
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in English
- Unabridged edition
0792799542 9780792799542
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"Bryce wrote: "Kyrgyzstan."
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In the history of literary collaborations, there has never been one as fiendishly fascinating--and exquisitely explosive--as the one that Donald E. Westlake has cooked up in his new novel. The tale of two men who live in a world of fiction, words, scenes, characters, and the tyranny of the New York Times bestseller list, The Hook brilliantly unveils a literary deception fueled by envy, fury, guilt, anger, and admiration. When Wayne Prentice sells his soul to his old friend, he begins a Hitchcockian journey to all the things he has ever wanted--at a price far too great to pay. . . .Once again, Donald E. Westlake proves that on the landscape of American letters he is a unique force of his own. From his hilarious Dortmunder comic capers to his novels written under the name of Richard Stark and his psychologically galvanizing The Ax, Westlake has delivered one agonizing twist and turn after another. In The Hook he is at his best. And for the reader, there is no getting away.
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