The Dark Corners of the Night

He was resigned to his job of TV script writer until a big-time crook asked him to plot the perfect robbery... Lionel Olay, a West Coast author, journalist and editor whose hard-driven newsman status was such an inspiration to the late great Hunter Thompson, wrote a pair of paperback originals in the late '50s. The first was a tale about an idealistic reporter who spurns the depredations of Hollywood in favor of a more honest life. This one relies more on Olay's keen eye and vision to present a hard-boiled California caper worthy of pulp legend.