Touch of Evil

ISBN-10
0881848867
ISBN-13
9780881848861
Series
Touch of Evil
Category
Fiction
Pages
168
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Pub
Author
Whit Masterson

Description

This powerful novel, on which Orson Welles based his famous 1958 film, is a sleek, dark indictment of the American justice system--an original American masterpiece. "Masterson looks at corruption in society and shows how it taints all of us".--Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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