Last Enemy

by Berton Roueché

Strong spine with slight wear, no creasing. Bright clean cover has slight shelf and edge wear. Text is perfect but beginning to tone. Same day shipping first class.

Unknown Binding

First published September 1, 1975

About the author

Berton Roueché was a medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He also wrote twenty books, including Eleven Blue Men (1954), The Incurable Wound (1958), Feral (1974), and The Medical Detectives (1980). An article he wrote for The New Yorker was made into the 1956 film Bigger Than Life, and many of the medical mysteries on the television show House were inspired by Roueché's writings.

Reviews

[Paul Barnes · Rating 4 out of 5]

[Victor Gollancz Ltd] (1956). HB/DJ. 1/1. Publisher’s Archive Copy. 240 Pages. Purchased from Any Amount of Books.

A jumble of vividly drawn, strange misfits who stumble through life and death.

I wish that Rex Corn had featured more; he’s a most intriguing villain.

The ending was abrupt and slightly disappointing.

The typically sparse Gollancz wrapper briefly quotes from eight reviews. Oddly enough, the first five contain the word “fascinating” - three being confined to it with a ‘more verbose’ entry prefixing “entirely”.