A special edition of The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. Featuring an introduction
by James Ellroy. When Frank an amoral young drifter gets thrown off a hay truck in the
California desert he ends up at a diner run by Cora and her inconvenient husband Nick. This
chance meeting puts them all on a sure path to perdition. First published in 1934 and banned in
Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism The Postman Always Rings Twice is a
classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing
vision of America's bleak underside and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The
Stranger . A Vintage Crime Black Lizard Special Edition
