Nightwork

A dead man's briefcase presents a down-on-his-luck pilot with the chance of a lifetime.

Pilot Douglas Grimes's best days are long behind him. Grounded due to a medical condition, Douglas has resigned himself to menial work as a desk clerk at a seedy hotel. But his fortune flips when he discovers a hotel guest dead from a heart attack and, next to him, a tube jammed with hundred-dollar bills. Douglas grabs the money and, with it, the chance to remake his life. In Europe, he meets Miles Fabian, an elegant and erudite con man with a flair for extravagance. Fabian recruits him for his latest ploy: robbing members of the idle rich. But what will happen when his bad behavior catches up with him?

"Nightwork" ("Ночной портье") – один из 12 наиболее известных романов популярного американского писателя XX века Ирвина Шоу. В романе повествуется о роли случая в жизни любого, даже самого незаметного человека. Загадочная гибель одного из постояльцев отеля открыла для ночного портье дверь в другую жизнь.

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