Dancing in the Dark is the drama of an ambitious small-time crook caught in a world of big-time crime. The novel is set in the underworld of the late 1940s, the classic age of cat burglars and psychopathic killers. "Pretty Boy" Johnny McIver, cashiered officer and gentleman with the manners of a matinee idol, takes on the gangland professionals under Sonny Tarrant. But McIver and his dancer girlfriend Solit ...Täielik kirjeldus
Dancing in the Dark is the drama of an ambitious small-time crook caught in a world of big-time crime. The novel is set in the underworld of the late 1940s, the classic age of cat burglars and psychopathic killers. "Pretty Boy" Johnny McIver, cashiered officer and gentleman with the manners of a matinee idol, takes on the gangland professionals under Sonny Tarrant. But McIver and his dancer girlfriend Solitaire find their plans for one big score going horrifically awry when they unwittingly cross Tarrant during an underworld power struggle. Victim of a manhunt after a murder he did not commit, McIver encounters betrayal on every side. Among holiday crowds in a sunlit summer after the war, the public-school con man and thief is caught in a lethal web of circumstance. Trapped in a world of hired pleasures and false friendships, Johnny McIver is a man in panic, a man "dancing in the dark." But will his flight from the law stop only at a rope's end...