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A dead man’s briefcase presents a down-on-his-luck pilot with the chance of a lifetime. Pilot Douglas Grimes’s best days are long behind him. Grounded due to a medical condition, Douglas has resigned himself to menial work as a desk clerk at a seedy hotel. But his fortune flips when he discovers a hotel guest dead from a heart attack and, next to him, a tube jammed with hundred-dollar bills. Douglas grabs the money and, with it, the chance to remake his life. In Europe, he meets Miles Fabian, an elegant and erudite con man with a flair for extravagance. Fabian recruits him for his latest ploy: robbing members of the idle rich. But what will happen when his bad behavior catches up with him?
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Hotel Świętego Augustyna, Irwin Shaw
- Language
- Released
- 2001
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- Book condition
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- Price
- €12.99
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- Title
- Hotel Świętego Augustyna
- Language
- Polish
- Authors
- Irwin Shaw
- Publisher
- Muza
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 442
- ISBN10
- 8372009589
- ISBN13
- 9788372009586
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Classics, American Literature, Crime Rate
- Description
- A dead man’s briefcase presents a down-on-his-luck pilot with the chance of a lifetime. Pilot Douglas Grimes’s best days are long behind him. Grounded due to a medical condition, Douglas has resigned himself to menial work as a desk clerk at a seedy hotel. But his fortune flips when he discovers a hotel guest dead from a heart attack and, next to him, a tube jammed with hundred-dollar bills. Douglas grabs the money and, with it, the chance to remake his life. In Europe, he meets Miles Fabian, an elegant and erudite con man with a flair for extravagance. Fabian recruits him for his latest ploy: robbing members of the idle rich. But what will happen when his bad behavior catches up with him?