A Dortmunder Heist (#1)
_____“That emerald,” Dortmunder said, “is an albatross around my neck. I used to think I could get away from it, but now I know better. I could walk out of here now, try to find something else to do with my life, but sooner or later that goddam emerald would pop up again, I’d be right back in the middle of the mess again. Either I get that emerald, or the emerald gets me, and until it happens one way or the other I’m stuck with it. I can’t get free, so why fight it?”
_____“This could very well be the most difficult job you’ve ever attempted.”
_____“It definitely is,” Dortmunder said. “The New York City banks got the most sophisticated alarm and camera systems in the world, plus grade-A guards, plus plenty of city cops just outside the door. Plus the traffic jam that midtown is always in the middle of, that you can’t even make a getaway.”
_____“You know all that,” the Major said, “but you still want to go on with it.”
_____“We all do,” Kelp said.
_____“It’s a matter of honor,” Murch said. “Like not gettin’ passed on the right.”
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Simon and Schuster, 1970 (HC) |
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Pocket Books, 1972 (PB) |
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Mysterious Press, 2001 (PB) |
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The Overlook Press, 2014 (PB) |
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E-Book, 2011 |
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Audio Book, 2010 |
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Audio CD, 2016 |
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The Hot Rock (20th Century Fox), 1972 |
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Second Edition (DBC) (Hardcover) (1970)
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1st UK (Hardcover) (1971)
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1st UK (Hardcover) (1971)
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1st France: (1971)
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1st France (1971)
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1st Italy: The Ineffable Five (1971)
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1st Italy (1971)
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Germany: Finger Off Hot Ice (1971)
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Germany (1971)
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Third Edition (1971)
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Third Edition (1971)
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1st Sweden: The Hot Rock (1971)
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1st Sweden (1971)
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1st Finland: Hot Rock (1972)
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1st Finland (1972)
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2nd UK (1972)
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Fourth Edition (1972)
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Fourth Edition (1972)
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Japan (1972)
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Japan (1972)
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Japan (1972)
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Denmark: There Once Was a Diamond (1972)
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Denmark (1972)
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2nd Finland (Hardcover) (1972)
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2nd Finland (Hardcover) (1972)
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Movie Poster (1972)
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Movie Poster (1972)
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Movie Poster (1972)
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French Movie Poster: Four Crooks (1972)
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2nd Sweden (Hardcover) (1974)
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2nd Sweden (Hardcover) (1974)
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2nd Italy: The Stone Hot Tin (1978)
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2nd Italy (1978)
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Argentina: The Hot Emerald (1978)
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Argentina (1978)
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DVD Cover (2003)
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3rd Sweden (1979)
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3rd Sweden (1979)
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2nd France (1980)
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2nd France (1980)
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Czechoslovakia: How to Steal an Emerald (1984)
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3rd UK (1985)
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3rd UK (1985)
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Italy Omnibus: The Ineffable Five (Hardcover) (1986)
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Italy Omnibus (Hardcover) (1986)
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Italy Omnibus (Hardcover) (1986)
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Fifth Edition (1987)
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Fifth Edition (1987)
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Germany Omnibus: Three Times Four Slanted Birds (1988)
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Germany Omnibus (1988)
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Germany Omnibus (1988)
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Mysterious Press (2001)
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