Plantão da Noite

Nova York, um hotel decadente, uma noite de inverno. No corredor do 6º andar, um cadáver nu com um canudo de papelão nas mãos... Assim começam as aventuras de Douglas Grimes, o vigia noturno do Hotel St. Ausgustine, um piloto fracassado e sem ilusões, que repentinamente se apodera de uma fortuna de 100 mil dólares. Na fuga para a Europa, o dinheiro desaparece e Douglas inicia a caçada ao “ladrão”. St. Moritz, Davos, Florença, Paris... no final do caminho Miles Fabian, um sofisticado playboy, refinado, culto e inescrupuloso, que se encarregará de introduzir Douglas Grimes no ofuscante mundo dos milionários. . .

[Turno de noche / Nightwork – Irwin Shaw] Douglas Grimes, un expiloto norteamericano que ahora se ha convertido en portero nocturno de un destartalado hotel, encuentra cien mil dólares junto al cadáver desnudo de un anciano huésped. Pese a su honradez y rectitud, Grimes no lo piensa dos veces: se apodera del paquete y abandona el hotel… Así empieza la novela de misterio y espionaje "Turno de Noche", del escritor estadounidense Irwin Shaw, un relato lleno de posibilidades en el que el protagonista descubrirá si es cierto eso que dicen de que el dinero no da la felicidad. . .

"Nightwork: A Novel" - New York Times Bestseller: The story of a down-on-his-luck desk clerk, a con man, and a fortune from the author of "Rich Man, Poor Man". Pilot Douglas Grimes’s best days are long behind him. Grounded due to a medical condition, Grimes has resigned himself to working nights at a seedy hotel. But his fortune flips when he discovers a guest dead from a heart attack and, next to him, a tube jammed with a fortune in cold hard cash. Grimes grabs the money and, with it, the chance to remake his life.

Then, in Europe, he meets Miles Fabian, an elegant and erudite con man with a flair for extravagance. Fabian recruits Grimes for his latest ploy: robbing members of the idle rich. But when the fun ends and his bad behavior catches up with him, things will get a lot more dangerous in this clever thriller from the multimillion-selling legend who brought us The Young Lions and countless other bestsellers. Known for both his literary talent—with two O. Henry Awards to his name—and for his ability to tell a propulsive, full-steam-ahead story, Irwin Shaw is perfect for those who enjoy the thrillers of Marcus Sakey or Lawrence Sanders.

Irwin Shaw (1913–1984) was an acclaimed, award-winning author who grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. His first play, Bury the Dead (1936), has become an anti-war classic. He went on to write several more plays, more than a dozen screenplays, two works of nonfiction, dozens of short stories (for which he won two O. Henry awards), and twelve novels, including The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970). William Goldman, author of Temple of Gold and Marathon Man, says of Shaw: “He is one of the great storytellers and a pleasure to read.”

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