The Expendable Man Hughes Dorothy B.Paperback
The Expendable Man Hughes Dorothy B.Paperback -It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.- And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his…
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The Expendable Man Hughes Dorothy B.Paperback
-It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.- And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even.
And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later?Dorothy B. Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir.
In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the