by Lionel White · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429722321
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«Cop mestre» is the crime novel by Lionel White, published in 1985 by Edicions 62 in paperback (160 pages, in Catalan).
Johnny Clay, a robber just out of prison, has spent years mulling over the perfect heist: getting hold of a racetrack's takings on the day of the great rivalry. To that end he recruits accomplices of irreproachable appearance and with no links between them, but the plan, meticulous and risky, depends on people not failing.
The novel belongs to the Seleccions de la Cua de Palla collection. It is the Catalan translation of the original work 'Clean Break' (1955), done by Carles Alier i Aixalà.
For readers of crime and detective fiction, with an interest in mid-20th-century American noir.
Lionel White was an American journalist and crime novelist, several of whose dark, noirish stories were made into films. Also known as L.W. Blanco, White had been a crime reporter and began writing suspense novels in the 1950s. His more than 35 books were all translated into several languages. His earlier novels were published as Gold Medal crime fiction, but when E. P. Dutton began a line of mystery and suspense books, he also wrote for them. He was best known as what a New York Times review called "the master of the big caper."
