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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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