The Dangerous Edge

by Robert Daley

Investigating the looting of the Nice bank in the 1954 French Riviera, a detective is baffled by the skill that went into the robbery and is drawn into a complicated web of mobsters, petty players, a corrupt millionaire, the CIA, and a woman. Reprint.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, France, Crime

480 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Robert Daley is the author of seventeen novels and eleven non-fiction books. Born and brought up in New York, he graduated from Fordham University, did his military service in the Air Force and began writing stories, articles and books immediately afterward. He was a New York Times foreign correspondents for six years based in France but covering stories from Russia to Ireland to Tunisia, fifteen or more countries in all. Much later he served as an NYPD deputy commissioner, which explains why many of his books have played out against a police background. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and six of his books have been filmed. He is married with three daughters. He and his French born wife divide their time between a house in Connecticut and an apartment in Nice. France.

Reviews

[Joe O'Connor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good; set in France in the 50s, an American leads robbery of bank valut, then matches wits with a French detective, who falls in love with the American's wife.

[Greg Tatum · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a favorite book when I first read it in the 80's. I read it a couple of times back then. I forgot the name until I finally asked about it 10 years ago on Reddit. Read it then and it was just as good as I remembered. Now it is on my To Be Read list again. Very well written unique setting and a real page-turner.

[Claudia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favorite reread books I own. I read it years ago and every year I haul it out and read it again. It is like a ritual to read this one and Chiefs by Stuart Woods. Love these two books by two completely different authors but both awesome stories.

[Colleen Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! The characters really pulled you in. Very well written.

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