The Straight World wanted Max Dembo dead. Because he was on the run. Because he lived high when he could. Because he was a cop killer.

But it was the straight world that made Max what he was. With reform schools and sadistic prisons. With inept parole officers... drug-testing centers... And it was the straight world that caged him in to endure the anguish of... STRAIGHT TIME

Corgi edition published 1978
© W W Norton & Company Inc 1973

Corgi Books are published by Transworld Publishers Ltd, Century House, 61-63 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London W5 5SA

Imagine you're Thomas Crown - millionaire, layabout, fearfully bored with life.

As an antidote you decide to knock over the biggest bank in town. Two million bucks and a private Swiss bank account.

Then they trace it all to you. Not a sharp-eyed sleuth with too many questions and a gun, but a beautifully zany girl with flaxen hair and a lot of feminine intuition hidden underneath.

Your next move? That's simple. You pull another job. Only this time you tell the girl that you're going to do it before you do it. And just see which way she jumps.

© 1968 MIRISCH-SIMKOE-SOLAR
First published by Avon Books Inc, New York. Hodder Paperback edition 1968.