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Harry peab plaani kaaperdada lennuk ja röövida teemandid, mida sellega veetakse. Glorie püüab meest päästa tema tegude vältimatutest tagajärgedest, kuid ahnus ja truudusetus viivad mõrvade ja meeleheitliku põgenemiseni.
240 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1955
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James Hadley Chase
650 books1,001 followersRené Lodge Brabazon Raymond was born on 24th December 1906 in London, England, the son of Colonel Francis Raymond of the colonial Indian Army, a veterinary surgeon. His father intended his son to have a scientific career, was initially educated at King's School, Rochester, Kent. He left home at the age of 18 and became at different times a children's encyclopedia salesman, a salesman in a bookshop, and executive for a book wholesaler before turning to a writing career that produced more than 90 mystery books. His interests included photography (he was up to professional standard), reading and listening to classical music, being a particularly enthusiastic opera lover. Also as a form of relaxation between novels, he put together highly complicated and sophisticated Meccano models.
In 1932, Raymond married Sylvia Ray, who gave him a son. They were together until his death fifty three years later. Prohibition and the ensuing US Great Depression (1929–1939), had given rise to the Chicago gangster culture just prior to World War II. This, combined with her book trade experience, made him realise that there was a big demand for gangster stories. He wrote as R. Raymond, James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant and Raymond Marshall.
During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, achieving the rank of Squadron Leader. Chase edited the RAF Journal with David Langdon and had several stories from it published after the war in the book Slipstream: A Royal Air Force Anthology.
Raymond moved to France in 1956 and then to Switzerland in 1969, living a secluded life in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, on Lake Geneva, from 1974. He eventually died there peacefully on 6 February 1985.
In 1932, Raymond married Sylvia Ray, who gave him a son. They were together until his death fifty three years later. Prohibition and the ensuing US Great Depression (1929–1939), had given rise to the Chicago gangster culture just prior to World War II. This, combined with her book trade experience, made him realise that there was a big demand for gangster stories. He wrote as R. Raymond, James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant and Raymond Marshall.
During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, achieving the rank of Squadron Leader. Chase edited the RAF Journal with David Langdon and had several stories from it published after the war in the book Slipstream: A Royal Air Force Anthology.
Raymond moved to France in 1956 and then to Switzerland in 1969, living a secluded life in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, on Lake Geneva, from 1974. He eventually died there peacefully on 6 February 1985.
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February 23, 2021
Harry Griffin is tired of being poor and he is tired of being taken for a sucker.So,he hatches a plan to make a million dollar fortune by hijacking a plane and getting his hands on a collection of industrial diamonds.It wouldn't be so easy,however.
The plane lands in the desert,and after that things go very wrong as happens in many a Hadley Chase thriller.The protagonist finds himself in a desperate battle for survival.
Compelling and fast paced thriller.
The plane lands in the desert,and after that things go very wrong as happens in many a Hadley Chase thriller.The protagonist finds himself in a desperate battle for survival.
Compelling and fast paced thriller.
April 14, 2025
In his 1954 novel, “You’ve Got It Coming,” Chase offers a story about a caper, which of course, as it so often does in crime novels, goes upside down, but Chase tells the tale so well that it is definitely worth reading.
The lead characters are Harry Griffin and Glorie Davis, a pair who suddenly feel as i their best days are already behind them and need to go for the big kill no matter the risks. Glorie is now the ripe-old age of 32 “and the life she had led had taken most of the gloss off her beauty.” She was a beauty contest winner who had gone nowhere in Hollywood, had become a nightclub hostess, the girlfriend of a mobster (Ben Delaney) who had escorted her through all the European capitals, and after she had finally hocked most of the jewelry and furs Ben had bestowed upon her and traded down for several other boyfriends, she met Harry. It has now been six months of their dating and Harry is a crew captain for California Air Transport, ripe at the age of 36, but still reckless, swashbuckling, and exciting.
But that all changes in a blink of an instant. Harry, on a flight, tossed back a few drinks and got frisky with a stewardess while his copilot operated the flight. The only problem was the CEO of the airline was onboard and, as soon as they landed, Harry was out of a job and, when he showed up at Glorie’s apartment, did not even have the price of a drink on him. Figuring she could support him for a while, he is shocked to find she has not had a bank account in months and was as broke as him.
The stage is now set as Harry tells her: “The world is made up of smart guys who get rich and suckers who stay poor. I’ve been a sucker too long: now, I’m going to be smart. I know where I can put my hands on three million bucks, so I’m going to take them.”
Harry’s daring scheme – daring for 1954 especially – is to hijack one of his ex-employer’s flights that is transporting three million dollars of industrial diamonds. Harry has the cojones to pull it off and the swashbuckling hubris to think he can play off anyone who gets in his way. The problem for him though is that he has been a working stiff for years and has no connections in the underworld. He has no tough buddies to back his play and no one who can fence any jewels let alone three million hot diamonds. Harry figures – and this is where his ego is too big that it overshadows any logic – that Glorie has the connection he can use in her ex-beau Ben, a tough unscrupulous syndicate man. He figures all they have to do is present the scheme to Ben who will supply the muscle and the fencing.
As the scheme unfolds, they carefully approach Ben and put it to him. He’s suspicious and his henchmen know the Harry Green he met does not really exist, but for a payout of $50,000, Ben stood to gain a couple of million from the diamonds and figures it is worth the risk and that Harry and Glorie are two babes in the woods who would never in a million years doublecross him out of his share. Well, Glorie knows how deadly Ben is and that there would be no escaping him no matter how fast or how far you ran. Harry is consumed with his own ego, though, and has few qualms about cutting Ben and the syndicate out when he figures out he can sell it back to the real owner for far more than the $50,000 he was bullied into accepting.
Right then and there, you know this whole thing is going to go belly-up, but the ride to get there is damn good from the actual bloody violent hijacking that does not go off as planned to Harry’s sudden change of plans when he is off on his own with three million dollars of diamonds. Quickly, the tables turn and Harry is hunted by law enforcement for the most daring hijacking imaginable and by the syndicate who wants the diamonds, the pre-paid $50,000, and Harry’s and Glorie’s scalps to boot.
Nothing goes quite as planned, but Chase offers up a terrific fast-moving thriller with unforgettable characters.
The lead characters are Harry Griffin and Glorie Davis, a pair who suddenly feel as i their best days are already behind them and need to go for the big kill no matter the risks. Glorie is now the ripe-old age of 32 “and the life she had led had taken most of the gloss off her beauty.” She was a beauty contest winner who had gone nowhere in Hollywood, had become a nightclub hostess, the girlfriend of a mobster (Ben Delaney) who had escorted her through all the European capitals, and after she had finally hocked most of the jewelry and furs Ben had bestowed upon her and traded down for several other boyfriends, she met Harry. It has now been six months of their dating and Harry is a crew captain for California Air Transport, ripe at the age of 36, but still reckless, swashbuckling, and exciting.
But that all changes in a blink of an instant. Harry, on a flight, tossed back a few drinks and got frisky with a stewardess while his copilot operated the flight. The only problem was the CEO of the airline was onboard and, as soon as they landed, Harry was out of a job and, when he showed up at Glorie’s apartment, did not even have the price of a drink on him. Figuring she could support him for a while, he is shocked to find she has not had a bank account in months and was as broke as him.
The stage is now set as Harry tells her: “The world is made up of smart guys who get rich and suckers who stay poor. I’ve been a sucker too long: now, I’m going to be smart. I know where I can put my hands on three million bucks, so I’m going to take them.”
Harry’s daring scheme – daring for 1954 especially – is to hijack one of his ex-employer’s flights that is transporting three million dollars of industrial diamonds. Harry has the cojones to pull it off and the swashbuckling hubris to think he can play off anyone who gets in his way. The problem for him though is that he has been a working stiff for years and has no connections in the underworld. He has no tough buddies to back his play and no one who can fence any jewels let alone three million hot diamonds. Harry figures – and this is where his ego is too big that it overshadows any logic – that Glorie has the connection he can use in her ex-beau Ben, a tough unscrupulous syndicate man. He figures all they have to do is present the scheme to Ben who will supply the muscle and the fencing.
As the scheme unfolds, they carefully approach Ben and put it to him. He’s suspicious and his henchmen know the Harry Green he met does not really exist, but for a payout of $50,000, Ben stood to gain a couple of million from the diamonds and figures it is worth the risk and that Harry and Glorie are two babes in the woods who would never in a million years doublecross him out of his share. Well, Glorie knows how deadly Ben is and that there would be no escaping him no matter how fast or how far you ran. Harry is consumed with his own ego, though, and has few qualms about cutting Ben and the syndicate out when he figures out he can sell it back to the real owner for far more than the $50,000 he was bullied into accepting.
Right then and there, you know this whole thing is going to go belly-up, but the ride to get there is damn good from the actual bloody violent hijacking that does not go off as planned to Harry’s sudden change of plans when he is off on his own with three million dollars of diamonds. Quickly, the tables turn and Harry is hunted by law enforcement for the most daring hijacking imaginable and by the syndicate who wants the diamonds, the pre-paid $50,000, and Harry’s and Glorie’s scalps to boot.
Nothing goes quite as planned, but Chase offers up a terrific fast-moving thriller with unforgettable characters.
March 14, 2021
Usually, James Hadley Chase gives you someone to sympathize with, at least partially. It may be a defender of people who have been wronged. It might be someone to be pitied. It may even be a good bad guy. But in You've Got It Coming, there is nobody. Harry Griffin is a compulsive liar whose consistent acts of stupidity and greed make him seem disgusting. Nobody could be more disgusting, you think. But, then, wait! There's also Borg, the fat hitman with the world's worst hygiene who has been sent to track down Harry. There's also Harry's girlfriend, Glorie Dane. Poor Glorie is constantly whining "Harry" so much that you wish they both would just hurry up and die. It doesn't help that no matter how badly Harry treats her, Glorie is like a whipped dog that nonetheless always crawls back to her master and asks for more. These are dissatsifying characters in a simplistic plot about stealing diamonds, which themselves are actually discarded halfway through the novel! To make things worse, there is simply no atmosphere in this story. Every place seems the same, blase and ill-defined.
During 1955 and 1956, Chase published six thrillers. That is a lot of writing. And there were bound to be some stinkers among the bunch. You've Got It Coming is the prize stinker of all. As I'm reading through his works chronologically, now, I hope he managed to rest and recharge his batteries before going on to the next story.
During 1955 and 1956, Chase published six thrillers. That is a lot of writing. And there were bound to be some stinkers among the bunch. You've Got It Coming is the prize stinker of all. As I'm reading through his works chronologically, now, I hope he managed to rest and recharge his batteries before going on to the next story.
May 17, 2017
Poor Glorie. So scared of being left on the shelf as she grows older, wanting lasting true love for herself. When she finds Harry Griffin, younger and ambitious, she hopes her dreams are on the way to becoming reality. But how he disappoints her, as he apparently glimpses a better future for himself. ‘To think that after all I have done for you, all the risks I have taken, and the love I have given you you could be so wickedly evil as to plan to kill me…’ she cries. If only he was as percipient as Joan, the other (new) woman in Harry’s life, who is quickly disillusioned with him. ‘I thought you were a wonderful person, but now I am not so sure…you are afraid of the police, and you are a liar,’ she points out. Yes harry wanted to get rich quick and he had hijacked coveted diamonds. But his shocking greed and selfishness propelled him towards disaster…
February 5, 2017
Harry Griffin was a successful pilot with the Californian Air Transport Corporation and he had drifted into a relationship with a girl, Glorie Dane, so everything was set fair. However, he then lost his job through a mixture of drinking and misbehaviour with one of the air stewardesses while they were both supposedly on duty in the air. So he called on his girlfriend for some solace and she invited him to move in with her, which he did willingly.
He then told her about three million dollars worth of diamonds that was going to be transported by CACT a few days later and he explained that he had a plan to hijack the 'plane and steal the diamonds. But he had no outlet for diamonds. However, he remembered that just before he met her, Glorie had ended a relationship with Ben Delaney, a big time crook in the city.
He, therefore, persuaded her to fix up a meeting with Delaney so that he could negotiate a deal. He duly does so but is warned that if he did not keep his side of the bargain he would be hunted down and killed. From that moment on the suspense is tremendous as the hijack went sadly wrong and his escape did not go to plan but he did manage to get away with the diamonds.
Against Glorie's better wishes he decided to renege on the deal with Delaney and he, along with a reluctant Glorie, went on the run. Delaney initially wrote off his loss but his henchman, Borg, did not, and he set out to track Griffin down.
In an exciting chase across America, Borg eventually decided that he would not immediately kill the pair for he thought he could make some money in a deal. So he kept track of them and watched their every movement. Those movements included trying to sell the diamonds back to the original owner but that did not work either and Griffin had to reluctantly return them free of charge otherwise the owner, who knew what had happened since the hijack, and there had been a number of killings, threatened to expose Griffin to the police.
By then Griffin had tired of Glorie and had met an attractive younger woman who he then made love to and promised marriage with the prospect of setting up business with her through her father's money. This, too, turns sour and fed up with Glorie he dumps her off on a beach out of town and drives away. But he had a conscience and went back to pick her up only to find that she has been killed.
He was puzzled but also worried for he began to fear that Borg, who he knew to be a killer, was probably on his tail. This was true and in a helter-skelter ending Griffin, the archetypical anti-hero, finds himself on the wrong end of the law.
'You've Got It Coming' is a typical Hadley Chase thriller with page-turning suspense throughout.
He then told her about three million dollars worth of diamonds that was going to be transported by CACT a few days later and he explained that he had a plan to hijack the 'plane and steal the diamonds. But he had no outlet for diamonds. However, he remembered that just before he met her, Glorie had ended a relationship with Ben Delaney, a big time crook in the city.
He, therefore, persuaded her to fix up a meeting with Delaney so that he could negotiate a deal. He duly does so but is warned that if he did not keep his side of the bargain he would be hunted down and killed. From that moment on the suspense is tremendous as the hijack went sadly wrong and his escape did not go to plan but he did manage to get away with the diamonds.
Against Glorie's better wishes he decided to renege on the deal with Delaney and he, along with a reluctant Glorie, went on the run. Delaney initially wrote off his loss but his henchman, Borg, did not, and he set out to track Griffin down.
In an exciting chase across America, Borg eventually decided that he would not immediately kill the pair for he thought he could make some money in a deal. So he kept track of them and watched their every movement. Those movements included trying to sell the diamonds back to the original owner but that did not work either and Griffin had to reluctantly return them free of charge otherwise the owner, who knew what had happened since the hijack, and there had been a number of killings, threatened to expose Griffin to the police.
By then Griffin had tired of Glorie and had met an attractive younger woman who he then made love to and promised marriage with the prospect of setting up business with her through her father's money. This, too, turns sour and fed up with Glorie he dumps her off on a beach out of town and drives away. But he had a conscience and went back to pick her up only to find that she has been killed.
He was puzzled but also worried for he began to fear that Borg, who he knew to be a killer, was probably on his tail. This was true and in a helter-skelter ending Griffin, the archetypical anti-hero, finds himself on the wrong end of the law.
'You've Got It Coming' is a typical Hadley Chase thriller with page-turning suspense throughout.
November 1, 2020
It was hard to care about the main protagonists. Both of them seemed too stupid to root for. Anyone could see a kilometer away that they were doing very bad decisions. But I found myself rooting a little for the girl. Despite of her stupidity to follow the man, she was smarter than him and for a minute there I liked her. I wish she could handle her romantic life better.
But by the 80% part of book she was killed and that was it for me. I couldn't care less about what will happen for the man, so skipped to the last pages to see him get what he deserved and that was it.
I wished the girl had had a chance to rebuild her life and be somebody. Maybe become a gangster herself and make some fearless plans. Or maybe just settled down by herself and have some more self-esteem.
But by the 80% part of book she was killed and that was it for me. I couldn't care less about what will happen for the man, so skipped to the last pages to see him get what he deserved and that was it.
I wished the girl had had a chance to rebuild her life and be somebody. Maybe become a gangster herself and make some fearless plans. Or maybe just settled down by herself and have some more self-esteem.
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August 8, 2013
An interesting novel. The adventure of writing a detective novel without a hero is interesting. Ok, there is a detective at the end but the reader may ask who is that? The character got people's heart get killed before the climax, and with the anti hero we are not that attached. So, the gun shot before it is time...still, an enjoyable read and it is a good page turner. Recomended for thriller fans...
July 11, 2013
This was my first James Hadley Chase book and I loved it. I still remember all the characters and most of the story. I used to run home to read it under the piano and it was the first book I ever read in under 6 months! (back then, I didn't read). My grandmother gave it to me, and so started my love affair with literature.
May 23, 2022
Черно криминале от плодовит английски автор на криминалета (pulp fiction, англ.), което съдържа фразата „Когато му се любуваше, усети, че премалява от любов към него“ като мотивационен анализ на един от персонажите. Действието се развива през 50-те в Щатите – Лос Анжелис, Сан Франсиско, Ню Йорк, Маями, свързани през летището на Оклахома сити. И е писано през периода, съдейки по характеристиката на друг от персонажите, японец, лауреат на имперска почест, като „дребно жълто човече“. Главният герой е ас в гражданската авиация, с външен вид на 28-годишен Грегъри Пек, лек женски проблем, осцилиращ в спектъра секс - романтика – насилие. И още по-лек алкохолен, който обаче се компенсира с комбинативност и пробивност. Проблемът на най-злодейския персонаж, гангстер от кариерата е само телесното тегло. Не е изгубил пъргавост на показалеца и точност на очите и не осцилира емоционално, а си седи твърдо фиксиран в полюса на насилието. Полицията, блондинката и диаманитите запълват поддържащите сюжетни ниши. Идеално четиво за влак през Искърското дефиле.
February 1, 2021
One former pilot of a large aviation company decides to hijack an airplane in order to steal diamonds that will be transported onboard. The reader will not be surprised to learn that at this moment his mistress appears in the plot, through whom he turns to one stern gangster for help. He provides assistants to him. But a seemingly flawless plan suddenly collapses when the plane lands in the desert... Well, I don't know about you, but for me, the plot is like a real jam! Only a master writer could have come up with such a thing.
October 19, 2020
Read a chase novel after 42 years....
December 28, 2020
Decent Novel form JHD as usual, fast paced and full of entertainment with a dash of emotional content.
January 7, 2022
Κλασικός Chase χωρίς να είναι από τα καλύτερά του
March 12, 2017
3.5/5
A satisfying read.
A satisfying read.
September 16, 2016
I always like books that were published even before I was born. I find their story more interesting and is very indulging. I’m into classics and hardly on latest books. And this is one of the good examples why classic thrillers are more entertaining than the newer ones.
The story started when Harry Griffin told her girlfriend Glorie that he will going to put his hands on three million bucks worth of diamonds. And he did just that. He plucked three million bucks worth of diamonds out of the air by hijacking the plane that was carrying them in mid-flight. But this sudden wealth didn’t bring power or happiness Harry wanted…only danger, hatred and death.
This story is a very intriguing one. I was hooked by this story the moment I’ve started reading it. When I first read the story, I didn’t expect that I could finish it in just one sitting. It has its fair combination of suspense thrillers that would keep you glued. I can only remember how much I enjoyed the story.
It doesn’t just offered suspense but it also provides lessons. A lesson that teaches you that everything you acquired in a bad way will not going to last even how hard you grip on it. In every bad thing you commit, there are always consequences that you should take.
This is my first book from the author and was really impressed. He’s one of those good ones and I’m always looking forward into reading his other books.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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The story started when Harry Griffin told her girlfriend Glorie that he will going to put his hands on three million bucks worth of diamonds. And he did just that. He plucked three million bucks worth of diamonds out of the air by hijacking the plane that was carrying them in mid-flight. But this sudden wealth didn’t bring power or happiness Harry wanted…only danger, hatred and death.
This story is a very intriguing one. I was hooked by this story the moment I’ve started reading it. When I first read the story, I didn’t expect that I could finish it in just one sitting. It has its fair combination of suspense thrillers that would keep you glued. I can only remember how much I enjoyed the story.
It doesn’t just offered suspense but it also provides lessons. A lesson that teaches you that everything you acquired in a bad way will not going to last even how hard you grip on it. In every bad thing you commit, there are always consequences that you should take.
This is my first book from the author and was really impressed. He’s one of those good ones and I’m always looking forward into reading his other books.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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