The final unpublished novel by MWA Grandmaster - a wild, romantic road
trip across America by taxi cab - demonstrates why this beloved author
is so fondly remembered and so dearly missed.
"A book by this guy is cause for happiness."
Stephen King
DONALD E. WESTLAKE
GOES OFF THE BEATEN PATH
In 1977, one of the world's finest crime novelists turned his pen to
suspense of a very different sort - and the results have never been
published, until now.
Fans of mystery fiction have often pondered whether it would be possible
to write a suspense novel without any crime at all, and in CALL ME A CAB
the masterful Donald E. Westlake answered the question in his inimitable
style. You won't find any crime in these pages - but what you will find
is a wonderful suspense story, about a New York City taxi driver hired
to drive a beautiful woman all the way across America, from Manhattan to
Los Angeles, where the biggest decision of her life is waiting to be
made. From Pennsylvania to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas,
Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada on the way to California, the
characters' odyssey takes them through uncharted territory - on the map
and in their lives. It's Westlake at his witty, thought-provoking best,
and it proves that a page-turner doesn't need to have a bomb set to go
off at the end of it in order to keep sparks flying every step of the
way.
