TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richard Stark
AU  - Donald E.Westlake
TI  - The Damsel
SN  - 9780881501568
AV  - PS3573.E9 
U1  - 813.54 
PB  - Countryman Pr
KW  - Mystery
N2  - Grofield has a knack for attracting damsels in distress. Even holed up in a Mexico City hotel room (with thousands in cash and a bullet wound) they manage to find him.  When Ellen Marie Fitzgerald comes in through his window, she tells a tale that he promptly dismisses. And just as promptly reconsiders when a couple of hoods come looking for her.  The damsel leads Grofield on a chase across Mexico, running the gauntlet on the one heavily guarded road to Acapulco in hopes of preventing a political assassination.  It's a desperately chivalrous gamble for the gallant part-time actor-cum-thief.  "An unconventionally but effectively constructed novel, ranging from the hardest-boiled action-objectivity to character-introspection in depth." (New York Times Book Review)
ER  -