An American Dream

A key backlist title from the highly acclaimed author of "The Naked and the Dead and The Fight". War her ex-Congressman, a professor of popular but somewhat notorious reputation, television personality and husband of the rich and beautiful Deborah (a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz), Stephen Rojack lived the "American Dream". But his enviable life concealed a strange tension, the constant itch to jump, and when one day he finally cracks and strangles his luscious wife, he unleashes a personality of undreamt-of ferocity. A wanted murderer, Rojack is suddenly catapulted into an alien world of gangsters, crumbling tenements and downtown bars. Here, he meets Cherry, a small-time singer who ekes out her living in sleazy nightclubs, waiting for a break. Shes the woman Rojack falls for, dangerously, desperately, tragically! A powerful exploration of one mans quest for depravity, "An American Dream" shocked the USA on first publication in 1965 with its graphic...