The legendary macho American film director of THE NAKED KISS, PICK UP ON SOUTH STREET and many other brutalist thrillers and war movies also enjoyed a career as a writer. His books all edge around the frontiers of pulp and this newly-discovered previously unpublished in English novel has all his customary ingredients to the fore. Paul is a bag man for the Mob who suffers from a creeping brain disease and one day makes the fatal mistake of falling for the soon-widowed wife of a dangerous criminal. The path to madness and pain opens up immediately under his uncertain feet and the tale spins off into fatalistic avenues and desperate noir romance of the highest order and will leave you quite breathless. Would have made a great Fuller movie too!
The bagmen who transport money for organized crime live by a special set of rules: no relationships, no ties...no alcohol, no women...no talking...and never, ever look inside the bag you're carrying. For more than ten years, despite suffering from a rare brain disorder, Paul Page was the perfect bagman. But that ended the day he saw a beautiful Mob wife become a Mob widow. Now Paul is going to break every one of the rules he's lived by to protect the woman he loves - even if it means he might be left holding the bag...
