Say It With Bullets
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: dj - damaged with pieces missing on front and rear panel - preserved within mylar. Cloth - faded and worn. Internally sound.
What begins as a cross-country bus tour through the American West quickly becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse in Richard Powell's wickedly entertaining crime novel, Say It with Bullets. Bill Wayne, a veteran with a dark wartime secret and a list of men who betrayed him, boards a tourist bus not to sightsee, but to hunt — dispatching his targets one by one while keeping up the cheerful pretense of a fellow traveller. Powell masterfully blends the conventions of hard-boiled crime fiction with sharp, dry humour, crafting a protagonist who is simultaneously ruthless and oddly charming against the sun-baked backdrop of the American Southwest. Beneath its breezy, comedic surface, Say It with Bullets is a taut meditation on wartime betrayal, moral ambiguity, and the lengths a man will go to settle a score. Powell's prose is crisp and propulsive, shot through with wit that keeps the pages turning at a relentless pace — a quality that earned the novel considerable popular success upon its original publication in 1954. His deft handling of suspense and character ensures that the reader is never quite sure whether to root for or fear the man with the list. For fans of mid-century American crime writing who enjoy their thrills served with a knowing wink, this is an essential and thoroughly gripping read.
Author: Richard Powell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955, Hodder & Stoughton
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: dj - damaged with pieces missing on front and rear panel - preserved within mylar. Cloth - faded and worn. Internally sound.
What begins as a cross-country bus tour through the American West quickly becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse in Richard Powell's wickedly entertaining crime novel, Say It with Bullets. Bill Wayne, a veteran with a dark wartime secret and a list of men who betrayed him, boards a tourist bus not to sightsee, but to hunt — dispatching his targets one by one while keeping up the cheerful pretense of a fellow traveller. Powell masterfully blends the conventions of hard-boiled crime fiction with sharp, dry humour, crafting a protagonist who is simultaneously ruthless and oddly charming against the sun-baked backdrop of the American Southwest. Beneath its breezy, comedic surface, Say It with Bullets is a taut meditation on wartime betrayal, moral ambiguity, and the lengths a man will go to settle a score. Powell's prose is crisp and propulsive, shot through with wit that keeps the pages turning at a relentless pace — a quality that earned the novel considerable popular success upon its original publication in 1954. His deft handling of suspense and character ensures that the reader is never quite sure whether to root for or fear the man with the list. For fans of mid-century American crime writing who enjoy their thrills served with a knowing wink, this is an essential and thoroughly gripping read.