This cover appears to be from an alternate universe where Graham Greene is Mickey Spillane.
Though I guess technically the blurb at the top is accurate: Pinkie Brown is a psychotic killer and Brighton is a summer resort.
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Imagine if Bantam ever published The Bible.
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It was either Phil [Dick] or [Ace editor] Terry Carr who came up with the idea of an Ace Double edition of the Holy Bible.
“One of these days Ace will print the Holy Bible as a Double, back to back, the Old Testament and the New Testament each cut to exactly 30,000 words, the Old Testament titled Master of Chaos and the New Testament titled The Thing with Three Souls.”
Poul Anderson, posthumous appreciation of Philip K. Dick in Locus magazine #256 (5/82)
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It had to be Terry Carr behind that quote, if Dick said something like that it would have wound up in one of his novels.
We read Brighton Rock in college in a freshman literature class, if the cover had looked like this a lot fewer students would have opted for the Cliff Notes version. One often does judge a book…you know the rest.
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