Peter Maas Book (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Corsillo, George (jacket designe and illustration); Estrada, Sigrid (author photograph); Joudry, Jeanne (book design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition blue boards, blue cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Peter Maas; Acknowledgments; Author Dedication and Prologue. "Peter Maas, the author of such major nonfiction best-sellers as Serpico, The Valachi Papers, King of the Gypsies, and most recently Manhunt, is also a distinguished novelist. His highly acclaimed Made in America was praised by Time magazine as "brutal, funny, a comedy of terrors." Now, in his new novel, Father and Son, Maas has written his most powerful and moving work to date. His hero is Michael McGuire, a successful New York executive, a widower who has found in his only son, Jamie, all the reason he needs to go on living and working. McGuire scarcely ever thinks of himself as "Irish"; he has no attachment to his ancestral homeland and little interest in what is happening "over there." But when Jamie is drawn, by a romantic impulse, into an IRA gun-running plot, McGuire is propelled into the tangled, violent, harsh reality of a war that involves both IRA sympathizers and foes in the United States government, the British secret service, and the highest level of the IRA leadership: a war in which he learns there is no such thing as an innocent bystander or the rules of the Geneva Convention, a war that will shatter the lives of father and son. No one before has penetrated so deeply into the terrible world of apparently never-ending violence that Northern Ireland has become. With a narrative skill, gift for detail and talent for sustained suspense to rival those of John le Carre and Frederick Forsyth, Peter Maas expertly weaves a complicated, totally satisfying story, ranging from the offices of M15 in London to the inner councils of the IRA and to the network of Irish-American supporters whose money and cooperation help make the struggle possible, never once letting the reader forget that in the middle of all the plotting, counter-plotting, and killing, one father is searching for the truth about his son." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Script Format, reprint. Condition: As New. / 1972 DRAFT / I HAVE MORE TITLES, LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR OTHER TITLES / THE SCRIPT IS PRINTED ON THREE-HOLE PUNCHED PAPER AND BOUND WITH 2 BRASS BRADS /.

Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited apprentice editor Harvey Rosenstock, with his name in manuscript ink on the verso of the front wrapper and the top of the first page. With a memo on "Serpico" letterhead, noting script adjustments, laid in. Based on Peter Maas' 1973 biography "Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System," about the titular plainclothes officer who exposes corruption in the New York City Police Department, only to face harassment and threats from his fellow officers. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in New York. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. 130 pink revision leaves, dated 6/18/73, with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold screw brads. Eureka MOC 79. Spicer US Neo-Noir.