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Автор Deighton Len
Len Deighton
Violent Ward
Copyright
This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
Published by HarperCollins
This paperback edition 2011
First published in Great Britain by
HarperCollinsPublishers in 1993
Copyright © Len Deighton 1993
Introduction copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 2011
Cover designer’s note © Arnold Schwartzman 2011
Len Deighton asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
VIOLENT WARD. Copyright © Len Deighton 1993. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Source ISBN: 9780006479017
EBook Edition © JULY 2011 ISBN: 9780007450879
Version: 2017-08-10
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Cover designer’s note
Introduction
1
‘There’s a woman sitting on my window ledge,’ I said…
2
That was some bash, that party for Petrovitch. The little…
3
I drove back from the Petrovitch bash with a lot…
4
Fancy Goldie remembering our breakfasts in Tommy’s.
It’s one of…5
I’d had it too long to trade it in. Maybe…
6
It wasn’t like staying with friends. There was a sort…
7
Flying back from Colorado was not a pleasure for me,…
8
I went home to Woodland Hills and shuffled through some…
9
Next day was Sunday. From the very back of my…
10
Budd’s party was not the sort of Hollywood celebration that…
11
When my next-door neighbors, the Klopstocks, had people over, they…
12
My secretary, the indomitable Magda Huth, came running out of…
13
A week later a call from Felix Chiaputti brought a…
14
Petrovitch had a place up on Hillcrest, where the folks…
15
The trial of the policemen accused of beating Rodney King…
16
Like most of the city’s inhabitants, I spent many of…
About the Author
Other Books by Len Deighton
About the Publisher
Cover designer’s note
Prompted by seeing the renderings of my two murals for Cunard’s new ship, Queen Elizabeth, Len Deighton suggested that I illustrate some of the covers of this next quartet of re-issues. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to draw once again, as it has been well over thirty years since my days as a regular illustrator for the Sunday Times.
It is amazing to think that it is also nearly twenty years since the 1992 Los Angeles riots, an event which looms large in this book. When first reading Violent Ward, it struck a chord with my wife and me as we had just moved into our new apartment in Hollywood when the riots took place.
