No Comebacks: Collected Short Stories (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: clipped with minor shelfwear. Pages: Light foxing on endpapers and book block. Binding: remains tight.
In No Comebacks, Frederick Forsyth — the undisputed master of the modern thriller — turns his razor-sharp eye to the short story form, delivering ten tightly constructed tales of obsession, miscalculation, and fatal consequence. Each story chronicles ordinary men and women who conceive the perfect plan, only to discover that fate has a crueller imagination than their own; from a wealthy businessman who plots to steal another man's wife, to a hitman whose carefully engineered scheme unravels in the most ironic of fashions. Forsyth writes with the same forensic precision and documentary realism that defined his landmark novels, grounding even the most outlandish scenarios in a world of cold, procedural detail that makes them utterly believable. The collection stands as a masterclass in narrative economy, where every word carries weight and the final twist arrives with the quiet efficiency of a silenced pistol. Signed and dated by the author, this edition is a rare find for collectors and devotees of the genre alike — proof that in Forsyth's world, there are never any loose ends, only loose people.
Author: Frederick Forsyth
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Hutchinson
Genre: Thriller
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: clipped with minor shelfwear. Pages: Light foxing on endpapers and book block. Binding: remains tight.
In No Comebacks, Frederick Forsyth — the undisputed master of the modern thriller — turns his razor-sharp eye to the short story form, delivering ten tightly constructed tales of obsession, miscalculation, and fatal consequence. Each story chronicles ordinary men and women who conceive the perfect plan, only to discover that fate has a crueller imagination than their own; from a wealthy businessman who plots to steal another man's wife, to a hitman whose carefully engineered scheme unravels in the most ironic of fashions. Forsyth writes with the same forensic precision and documentary realism that defined his landmark novels, grounding even the most outlandish scenarios in a world of cold, procedural detail that makes them utterly believable. The collection stands as a masterclass in narrative economy, where every word carries weight and the final twist arrives with the quiet efficiency of a silenced pistol. Signed and dated by the author, this edition is a rare find for collectors and devotees of the genre alike — proof that in Forsyth's world, there are never any loose ends, only loose people.