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15 de oct. de 2020 · In 1985, famed screenwriter and novelist William Goldman released his novel Heat, introducing the world to Nick Escalante, Nevada’s only freelance chaperone and possibly the number one deadliest master of various “edged weapons” in the world (some trivia: when the book was published in the UK, it was under the title Edged Weapons).
5 de feb. de 2024 · Heat is a 1985 novel by William Goldman about a soldier of fortune in Las Vegas. The novel is about a man named Nick Escalante, nicknamed the Mex by his friends, who hires himself out in Las Vegas not as a mercenary or bodyguard but as a service listed in the Yellow Pages directory under Chaperon.
Heat Search for << Previous book Next book >> Added by 4 members . Heat (1985) (Edged Weapons) A novel by William Goldman . Las Vegas security man Nick Escalante, an ex-Marine, chances on to a bizarre kidnapping threat and races into a night-time world of false identities, vicious grievances, and gruesome encounters Genre: General ...
William Goldman (b. 1931) is an Academy Award–winning author of screenplays, plays, memoirs, and novels. His first novel, The Temple of Gold (1957), was followed by the script for the Broadway army comedy Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (1961).
The novel is written kaleidoscopically, changing time period, location, and point of view swiftly and leaving important information, such as the identity of Fats the dummy, unknown for extended periods of time. Background. Goldman had the idea for a novel about a ventriloquist for a number of years before writing it. He says ...
I'm a William Goldman fan, and I've read almost every novel he wrote, and some of them - yes. The Marathon Man and The Princess Bride - several times. I find passages that I really like, ideas that I enjoy, and phrases that I envy in every single novel but mostly I enjoy them because I find humor in every single one. Heat is not an exception.
