Tomorrow's Crimes

Donald E. Westlake has been rightly acclaimed as the “master of the comic caper” ( New York Times ) for his witty and ingenious caper novels. His hard-boiled character Parker, created under the pseudonym Richard Stark, has been called “a brilliant invention” by the New York Review of Books. But the multi-talented Westlake also found success as an author of criminous science fiction. His best work in this field has been collected in Tomorrow’s Crimes.

The cornerstone of the collection is the 1967 novel Anarchaos. Start to say “anarchy” and midway switch and say “chaos” to utter the name of this planet colonized by humans, and revolving around a red sun the natives call Hell. Anarchaos is a planet where lawlessness is the only rule, where each man protects himself as best he can, and where the weak are soon dead. Rolf Malone’s brother had died already; Malone had come to Anarchaos to find his killer…knowing that he faced an entire planet of enemies.

Anarchaos and many more intriguing tales make up this volume of science fiction and fantasy—with crime thrown in to spice the plots—from an honored and award-winning author.