The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6, Part 2 - Crime Stories

Informationen zum Autor Our foremost storyteller of the American West, Louis L’Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world. Klappentext Traversing a vivid landscape, from sunblasted hills and canyons to the nighttime streets of America's greatest cities, some of Louis L'Amour's most compelling fiction was set in his own time. Here are tales of innocents caught in the schemes of criminals, detectives hunting down truths that hide even more lies, gamblers and beauties, wiseguys and cops. Here is a world populated by the kinds of people who risk their lives to right a wrong, make a buck, or save a friend. Brimming with thought-provoking characters and situations-from a man who regains consciousness in a burning house surrounded by a fortune in cash, to an innocent in a seedy diner who meets a vicious killer who is supposed to be long dead-these thrilling, atmospheric stories course with authenticity and bear the mark of a timeless master.DREAM FIGHTER   HE NEVER EVEN cracked a smile. Just walked in and said, “Mr. Sullivan, I want a fight with Dick Abro.”   Now Dick Abro was one of the four or five best heavyweights in the racket and who this kid was I didn’t know. What I did know was that if he rated a fight with anybody even half so good as Dick Abro, his name would have been in every news sheet in the country.   At first I thought the guy was a nut. Then I took another look, and whatever else you can say, the kid had all his buttons. He was a tall, broad-shouldered youngster with a shock of wavy brown hair and a nice smile. He looked fit, too, his weight was around one eighty. And Abro tipped the beam at a plenty tough two hundred.   “Listen, kid,” I said, shoving my hat back on my head and pointing all four fingers at him. “I never saw you before. But if you were twice as good as you think you are, you still wouldn’t want any part of Dick Abro.”   “Mr. Sullivan,” he said seriously, “I can beat him. I can beat him any day, and if you get me the fight, you can lay your money he will go out in the third round, flatter than ten pancakes.”   What would you have said? I looked at this youngster, and then I got up. When I thought of that wide, brown face and flat nose of Abro’s, and those two big fists ahead of his powerful shoulders, it made me sick to think what would happen to this kid.   “Don’t be a sap!” I said, hard-boiled. “Abro would slap you dizzy in half a round! Whatever gave you the idea you could take that guy?”   “You’d laugh if I told you,” he said quite matter-of-factly   “I’m laughing now,” I said. “You come in here asking for a fight with Abro. You’re nuts!”   His face turned red, and I felt sorry for the kid. He was a nice-looking boy, and he did look like a fighter, at that.   “Okay,” I said. “You tell me. What made you think you could lick Abro?”   “I dreamed it.”   You could have knocked me down with an axe. He dreamed it! I backed up and sat down again. Then, I looked up to see if he was still there, and he was.   “It’s like this, Mr. Sullivan,” he said seriously. “I know it sounds goofy, but I dream about all my fights before I have them. Whenever I get a fight, I just train and never think about it. Then, a couple of nights before the fight, I dream it. Then I get in the ring and fight like I did in the dream, and I always win.”   Well, I thought if Dick Abro ever smacked this lad for a row of channel buoys, he’d do a lot of dreaming before he came to. Still, there’s a lot of nuts around the fight game. At best, and it’s the grandest game in the world, it’s a screwy one. Funny things happen. So I tipped back in my chair and looked up at him, rolling a quid of chewing gum in my jaws.   “Yeah? ...

Product details

• Authors: Louis Amour, L&apos, Louis L'amour
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780804179782
• ISBN: 978-0-8041-7978-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 170 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature