Marathon Man (1st US Printing 1974)
NEW––BroDart Dust Jacket Cover
Author: William Goldman
First US Printing
©1974 William Goldman
Delacorte Press, New York

CAB Comment––What can say about the iconic William Goldman?  Most of you have probably seen movies made from his books, such as “Magic” starring a very young Anthony Hopkins, but have you ever read his books?  Well…you must.  As it says on Amazon: “William Goldman's remarkable career spans more than five decades, and his credentials run the gamut from bestselling novelist to Oscar-winning screenwriter to Hollywood raconteur. He's beloved by millions of readers as the author of the classic comic-romantic fantasy The Princess Bride. And he's notorious for creating the most harrowing visit to the dentist in literary and cinematic history--in one of the seminal thrillers of the twentieth century. . . “

“Marathon Man”––Kirkus Reviews:
“There's just no telling what the deluxe scenarist of Sundance Kids and Princess Brides will write next -- this time it's an immobilizing thriller with several startling sequences for openers (a New York car crash inadvertently involving two old men; a hit in a latrine -- with only the wig of the dead man as a souvenir) which seems to be unrelated until you get well on into this brutal world of couriers and assassins, knives and Magnum force guns, people who buy and sell, Providers. . . . And the Marathon Man who is nothing more than a naive and ""much too trusting"" Rhodes Scholar now at Columbia, Thomas Babington Levy, who thinks he might break a record -- Nurmi's. Until he's right in the middle of a deadlier competition he knew nothing about: his father's suicide back in the McCarthy era; his beautiful new girl's improbable susceptibility to him; the warning visit of his older brother -- the man he knew as Doc and others knew as the killer, Scylla -- just before he drops dead before his eyes; his own torture and pursuit and final win in a bloody battue. All of it streaks with sudden death right behind the reader who will have already turned the next page, and it should run rings around any other book of this kind to appear this season.”