A novel’s title is Just Another Suck written in 1961 by James Hadley Chase. The characters are Harry (who’s potrayed as a main character), Mr Malroux, Rhea (Malroux’s wife) John Renick, Nina and others, a novel setting is in Palm City.
A novel starts when Harry finishes his three and a half year jail sentence, after being wrongly accused for manslaughter, he
was a gossip columnist at Herald
before wrongly accused for the felony. After
being released Harry finds difficult to get another job that could push forward his life due to his damaged trust and reputation. The situation drives him nuts
and finally being set in a trap of faked kidnapping deal engineered by Rhea, a
wife of successful businessman, Mr Malroux.
Harry is promised fifty thousands dollar if he successfully carries
out the deal; unfortunately it fades away and put him into trouble. The
circumstance determines Harry’s fate; he is in a situation of hardly denying such
kind of deal.( It seems our behaviors are
shaped by the circumstances) Though the faked kidnapping deal puts Harry into a
serious trouble again with enforcement agency, finally he walk away with
trouble and reunites with his wife Nina.
From my point of view, a novel is fantastic and author has
succeeded to share his mind in different
themes like love, social class, betrayal, corruption and so many. For the case
of corruption Harry is portrayed as a character who devout his skills and
abilities to his job as a gossip columnist at Herald, hence dislike any form of bribery which can mess his career
up, but his dislike character put him
into ‘a serious trouble and finally being wrongly accused for manslaughter . Here we come to see that a good conduct is not
necessary to benefit the doer, this seems to draw a philosophical attention. Why abiding to the laws and norms sometimes harm a
person?
Betrayal theme, author again uses Harry to portrait it, who betrays his wife
Nana by having an affair with Odette, a daughter of Mr Malroux who’s a subject
of the faked kidnapping. Rhea (Mrs Malroux) also betrays her husband by having
an affair with their chauffeur O’Reilly. This shows howJu infidelity is treated
as a something normal in our daily lives, love has become a thing not to trust.
In finishing his story, author does not show how Mr Malroux respond after
learning that the one who killed his lovely daughter is chauffeur in
cooperation with his wife Rhea.
Though a couple of decades have passed since a novel was written,
it still stands as a fantastic and fascinating novel and I would like to suggest you find it and I assure you won’t regret yourself for consuming your
time reading it.
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