Born on this day – Georges Arnaud:

Georges Arnaud

Writer

July 16, 1917 – March 4, 1987

Credits:

Books:

Chronicles of crime and Innocence (1982); Highland Indians (1952); Indians Not Dead (1956); Juste avant l'aube, in collaboration with Jean Anglade (1990); The Largest Slope (1961); The Peiper Affair: More Than a News Item (1978); The Salary of the Fear (1950); The Journey of the Bad Thief (1951 / 1987); The Sweetest Confessions (1954); Ears on the Back (1953 / 1974); Sulfur Light (1952); Marshal P... (1958); My Trial (1961); For Djamila Bouhired (1957); Preface within The Murder of Roger Ackroyd of Agatha Christie (1961); Prisons 53 (1953); Schtibilem 1941 (1953).

Movies and television:

December (1973); The Sweetest Confessions (1971); Ears on the Back (2002); Robert Montgomery Presents (1954); Sorcerer (1977); The Wages of Fear (1953 / 2024); Violent Road / aka Hell's Highway (1958).

Recommended reading - The Wages of Fear (1950):

The Wages of Fear

Original title: Le Salaire de la peur.

By Georges Arnaud.

Originally published in 1950.

This English language translation edition was published in 1968.

Paperback.

Avon edition.

ASIN: B000VDT4KS

Description:

Las Piedras, beaching port. There are hundreds of them, coming from who knows where, to forget the impasse of their existence in the tropics. For a handful of dollars, these low-rankers are ready to do anything. Ready to face kilometers of impassable track, behind the wheel of a dilapidated truck, to transport nitroglycerin. At the slightest deviation, at the slightest shock, it is death. An epic of pure anguish...

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