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The Wages of Fear (1950).
Original title: Le Salaire de la peur.
By Georges Arnaud.
Originally published in 1950.
This English language translation edition was
published in 1968.
Paperback.
Avon edition.
ASIN: B000VDT4KS
Description:
Las Piedras, beaching port. There are hundreds
of them, coming from who knows where, to forget the impasse of their existence
in the tropics. For a handful of dollars, these low-rankers are ready to do
anything. Ready to face kilometers of impassable track, behind the wheel of a
dilapidated truck, to transport nitroglycerin. At the slightest deviation, at
the slightest shock, it is death. An epic of pure anguish...
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