Donald E. Westlake
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Donald Edwin Westlake was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray i
Westlake at home in the 1980s
The Ax (novel)
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The Ax is a 1997 horror thriller novel by American fiction writer Donald E. Westlake. The story follows Burke Devore on his violent hunt for a new job.
Donald E. Westlake
…2025 as Play Dirty, directed by Shane Black and starring Mark Wahlberg as Parker. In 2025, South Korean director Park Chan-Wook filmed Westlake's novel The Ax under the title No Other Choice. The film was favorably reviewed. His novel Memory, published posthumously in 2010, was adapted into the film The Actor…
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