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Armadillo

William Boyd

1998337 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1998
first published
  • 1998Knopf · 337 pages · ENGISBN 9780375402234
  • 2002W. H. Howes Ltd · 450 pages · ENGISBN 9781841975467

One cold winter's morning, Lorimer Black - insurance adjuster, young, good-looking, on the rise - goes out on a perfectly ordinary business appointment, finds a hanged man and realizes that his life is about to be turned upside down. The elements at play: a beautiful actress glimpsed in a passing taxi . . . an odd new business associate whose hiring, firing and rehiring make little sense . . . a rock musician who is losing his mind - and a web of fraud in which virtually everyone Lorimer Black knows has been caught and in which he finds himself increasingly entangled.

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AtmosphereNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

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ThemesJustice
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