More Deadly than the Male

'Master of the art of deception' New Statesman

'Master of the art of deception' New Statesman

George Fraser, a lonely, timid fellow, lives in a dream world of gangsters, gunfights and beautiful women. He begins to imagine himself as the toughest gangster of them all to bolster up his feeling of inferiority. But George boasts once too often - and to the wrong person.

From that moment on, harmless George is caught up in a deadly net of intrigue, and finds himself committing the deadliest act of all ...

'An intelligent and harshly revealing piece of work with not a little serious penetration and power' The Times