by Donald Westlake · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429727920
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«El colom fugitiu» is a crime novel by Donald Westlake, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (176 pages, in Catalan).
Charlie Poole is a young man who runs a bar used by the Mafia as a center for communications and assignments. When two of the organization's gunmen show up with orders to kill him, Charlie flees without knowing what is happening and is dragged into a Kafkaesque adventure through the inner workings of organized crime.
Originally published as «Fugitive Pigeon» in 1965, this Catalan edition translated by Josep Alemany and Josep Cabré appeared in the Seleccions de la Cua de Palla collection (no. 82).
For readers of crime and noir fiction looking for a plot with touches of humor.
Donald Edwin Westlake was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake created two professional criminal characters who each starred in a long-running series: the relentless, hardboiled Parker, and John Dortmunder, who featured in a more humorous series.
