Strictly for Cash
Another rambunctious thriller from the shelves of James Hadley Chase, the master story teller and my all time favorite.
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Johnny Farrar is an ex-boxer and struggling for cash and motive. He wants to get out of boxing but still make good money elsewhere. But he is irretrievably drawn to another bout, in which he has to take a dive.
Farrar gets into a mess with that and gets out of town in a getaway car driven by Della, the wife of a casino owner and gets into another scramble in which he is drawn dangerously. Farrar is forced to keep going and committing mistakes, all for that quarter of million dollars promised to him by Della.
In the meanwhile, he ends up in a car crash and forgets everything that happened for two months and lot of things occurred during this period, which is basically most of the book. It all ends up in a nice heap typical of Chase thrillers, this also never lets you down. Goodreads 5/5
