Shoot the Piano Player

GOODIS, DAVID

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Vintage Crime

Street of No Return

Mystery

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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The Burglar

Simon&Schuster

When a cop goes bad, he can always become a crook.  When a crook goes bad--that's when the Night Squad wants him.David Goodis's irresistibly readable study of corruption is a masterly portrait of a man clawing his way back from betrayal--and betraying countless others along the way.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Night Squad

Random House Audio |

Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging him back into a treacherous past. Shoot the Piano Player is a bittersweet and nerve-racking exploration of different kinds of loyalty: the kind a man owes his family, no matter how bad that family is; the kind a man owes a woman; and, ultimately, the loyalty he owes himself. The result is a moody thriller that, like the best hard-boiled fiction, carries a moral depth charge.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

From the author of Dark Passage and Shoot the Piano Player, a thriller about the dark ethics of crime, and the man unlucky enough to violate them. With its chilling portrait of a doomed man sorting his way among the perverse loyalties of a criminal "family," Black Friday has all the earmarks of David Goodis's classics, Dark Passage and Shoot the Piano Player. It is a haunting and often devastating foray into a world where no one has anything left to lose and survival itself is an act of malice.

Black Friday

Vintage

A dreamlike masterpiece of crime, honor, and perverse loyalty by the legendary author of Shoot the Piano Player. Nat Harbin is a family man. His family happens to be a gang of burglars. Now Nat has met a woman so hypnotically seductive that he will leave his partners and his trade to possess her. But you don't get away from family that easily. The Burglar has the hallmarks that made David Goodis one of the great practitioners of the hard-boiled crime novel: a haunting identification with life's losers, and a hero who finds out who he is only by betraying everything he believes in.

The Burglar (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Vintage Books

Whitey is wrongfully acused of killing a policeman and becomes caught up the schemes of three brutal gangsters

Suffering from amnesia, Jim Vanning doesn't remember the murder for which he is wanted by the police, or the missing three hundred thousand for which three crooks are prepared to kill him

Nightfall

When a cop goes bad, he can always become a crook. When a crook goes bad--that's when the Night Squad wants him. David Goodis's irresistibly readable study of corruption is a masterly portrait of a man clawing his way back from betrayal--and betraying countless others along the way.

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Shoot the Piano Player

Street of No Return

The Burglar

Night Squad

Shoot the Piano Player

Black Friday

The Burglar (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Street of No Return

Nightfall

Night Squad