| 词条 | Midnight Plus One |
| 释义 |
| name = Midnight Plus One | title_orig = | translator = | image = Gavin Lyall – Midnight Plus One.jpg | border = yes | caption = First edition (UK) | author = Gavin Lyall | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Thriller novel | publisher = Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Scribner (US) | release_date = 1965 | media_type = Print | pages = 256 | isbn = | preceded_by = The Most Dangerous Game | followed_by = Shooting Script }} Midnight Plus One is a first person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1965. Plot introductionLewis Cane is an ex-SOE operative who worked with the French Resistance against Nazi Germany. He stayed in Paris after the end of World War II, making a somewhat precarious living as a business expediter. One day he is approached by a lawyer, Henri Merlin, a former resistance comrade, with a job: a wealthy international financier, Maganhard, needs to be driven from Brittany to Liechtenstein in secrecy and within three days. The fact that the French Sûreté have an open arrest warrant out on Maganhard seems like a simple problem. However, when half the hit-men in Europe start gunning for them, things get complicated quickly. As Cane races the clock, the police, and the assassins across France and Switzerland, whom can he trust? His alcoholic and trigger-happy bodyguard? Maganhard's mysterious private secretary who seemingly goes out of her way to create problems? Or his former Resistance contacts, who might or might not sell him out for the highest price? Literary significance and criticismMidnight Plus One won the British Crime Writers' Association's Silver Dagger Award for thrillers in 1965. Film, TV or theatrical adaptationsThe film rights to Midnight Plus One were purchased by American actor Steve McQueen, who had planned to adapt it to the cinema before his untimely death. Columbia Pictures assigned the project to Bob Rafelson, but he and Bert Schneider ended up making the hit musical comedy "The Monkees". [1]Notes1. ^https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,3604,878937,00.html Guardian obituary {{1960s-thriller-novel-stub}} 4 : 1965 British novels|Novels by Gavin Lyall|Novels set in France|Hodder & Stoughton books |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。