The Spy Who Wasn’t There

Sometime in 2012, Charles Ardai, writer, editor, entrepreneur and co-founder of Hard Case Crime, was chatting with Abby Westlake when an unpublished manuscript came up in their conversation. It was called Fall of the City and it was loosely based on a treatment Donald Westlake had written under contract with Eon Productions/United Artists for James Bond film #18, which would Read More …

The Writer’s Writer’s Writer

I read this fantastic tribute to Donald Westlake’s work when it was published more than a year ago with every intention of publishing an excerpt and a link on this website, but then a whole lot of other somethings got in the way and whatever I had planned to do here vanished like an indy film producer on payday. Having Read More …