Marathon Man
- Authors
- Goldman, William
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Tags
- espionage , fiction.thriller , suspense , adapted into film , acclaimed.thrillers 100 must reads
- ISBN
- 9780345439727
- Date
- 1974-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.27 MB
- Lang
- en
"Superb . . . One hell of a read."
--The Washington Post
"WELL-PLOTTED, EXPERTLY CHARACTERIZED, AND FAST-PACED."--Los Angeles Times
From the Inside FlapWilliam Goldman's remarkable career spans more than five decades, and his credentials run the gamut from bestselling novelist to Oscar-winning screenwriter to Hollywood raconteur. He's beloved by millions of readers as the author of the classic comic-romantic fantasy The Princess Bride. And he's notorious for creating the most harrowing visit to the dentist in literary and cinematic history--in one of the seminal thrillers of the twentieth century...
MARATHON MAN
Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence--and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder--and force him into a race for his life . . . and for the answer to the fateful question, "Is it safe?"