THE CRIME WAS OVER IN A MINUTE THE CONSQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME Hospitalized after a liaison with another mans wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Pauls facing steep odds and a bleak fate if he fails This final, never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a mans struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.