Pity Him Afterwards

by Donald E. Westlake

Book Overview

Hiding in the darkness of the trees, he was waiting for the state police car to move on, but it would not. Red lights filled the road below, flashlights began to search the woods around him. But he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786703962
• ISBN13: 9780786703968
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Nimble Westlake

Donald E. Westlake (aliases include: Tucker Coe, Richard Stark) is one of the most nimble, prolific, consistently enjoyable writers I've encountered. A quick tribute: I've knocked off an equal amount of Westlake and Wodehouse and, when reading the comic works of the former, consistently experience the same amused lightheadedness that comes over me when dipping into the latter. However, unlike P.G., Mr. Westlake regularly works out of the less sunny realms of his imagination, as this book demonstrates, and will, from time to time, forgo camouflaging the fact with a pseudonym (for instance, his brilliant "The Ax"). What I'm saying is: Donald E. Westlake is not simply a comic crime novelist, so if you're looking for a good laugh you may be disappointed (I was not) and end up writing a laughable online review (see below) of a very excellent entertainment, such as "Pity Him Afterwards".