NIGHTWORK

by Irwin Shaw ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1975

Nightwork's all play for big stakes of one kind or another. It hasn't quite the sentimental grab of Evening in Byzantium but it's just as decorative, circulating through de grande classe hotels--from the Palace in St. Moritz to the Plaza Athenee in Paris--with a battle-scarred, dishonest confidence man of great likability, Miles Fabian by name, and Douglas Grimes, a former charter pilot. Grimes is a shy, essentially honest, stutterer with modest tastes until he finds an aging naked body in the hall of a hotel and a tube stuffed with $100,000 which he keeps. In time Fabian takes charge of both Grimes and his money--invests it in a film, a horse, a Tintoretto and high living all over and even if the woolly story is a little hard to buy, it's spendthrift entertainment with all those alluring go-with-its. You won't fold early.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1975

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Delacorte

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1975

Categories: FICTION