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Knockover
Cross was cool and bored and smarter than most people, so he made up a game, an exercise in icy logic, called armed robbery - and he recruited the perfect team: the muscle, the gun, the punk, and a lovely girl for bait.
The game worked. But Cross went for the bait, and ended up out-smarting everyone - even himself.
The game worked. But Cross went for the bait, and ended up out-smarting everyone - even himself.
159 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1968
About the author
Newton Thornburg
17 books43 followersBorn in Harvey, Illinois, Thornburg graduated from the University of Iowa with a Fine Arts degree. He worked in a variety of jobs before devoting himself to writing full-time (or at least in tandem with his cattle farm in the Ozarks) in 1973.
His 1976 novel Cutter and Bone was filmed in 1981 as Cutter's Way. The New York Times called Cutter and Bone "the best novel of its kind for ten years." Another novel-to film Beautiful Kate was filmed in Australia in 2009 and starred Bryan Brown and Ben Mendelsohn. It was directed by Rachel Ward, who is Bryan Brown's real-life wife.
Thornburg died on May 9, 2011, a few days shy of his 82nd birthday.
His 1976 novel Cutter and Bone was filmed in 1981 as Cutter's Way. The New York Times called Cutter and Bone "the best novel of its kind for ten years." Another novel-to film Beautiful Kate was filmed in Australia in 2009 and starred Bryan Brown and Ben Mendelsohn. It was directed by Rachel Ward, who is Bryan Brown's real-life wife.
Thornburg died on May 9, 2011, a few days shy of his 82nd birthday.
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