by Elmore Leonard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466303507
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«Chantaje mortal» is the suspense novel by Elmore Leonard, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Harry Mitchell, a respectable businessman, is going through a midlife crisis and has an affair with a young woman. Blackmailers secretly film him and demand a large sum to keep the tape from his wife and clients. Mitchell tries to buy time, though cornered he can become more dangerous than his extortionists expect.
Originally published as Fifty-Two Pickup (1974); this Spanish edition includes the translation by Enrique de Hériz.
For readers of crime and suspense fiction; the plot combines infidelity, secret recordings, and pressure on a businessman.
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story author and screenwriter. He was, according to British journalist Anthony Lane, "hailed as one of the best crime writers in the land". His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Among his best-known works are Hombre, Swag, City Primeval, LaBrava, Glitz, Freaky Deaky, Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight and Tishomingo Blues.
