EVE Clive Thurston is living a lie. Having claimed a dying playwright’s masterwork as his own, he is hailed as a brilliant, new author. Thurston is now living the good life in Hollywood. He has a house in the country, a manservant, a beautiful fiancée….then one night he meets Eve. Eve isn’t beautiful at all, but she’s got a way about her. Thurston is captivated, and in no time, he becomes obsessed. But as everybody knows, Eve is a prostitute, and his reputation around town begins to suffer. His fiancée has been patient, but she can take no more. Thurston is drinking too much, and making bad decisions. But what he can’t figure is why Eve keeps rejecting him. If he can only make Eve love him, maybe his own redemption is at hand… MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE “George knew the exact moment when he fell in love with Cora Brant. At one moment Cora was just someone with whom he hoped to alleviate an hour of lonely boredom; at the next she was someone he was physically and mentally aware of in a most overpowering way. He had bought drinks, and he had been startled that she tackled a pint of beer. And when he looked more closely at her, he realized she was not immaculate in the accepted sense of the word. But George was not critical. Any woman was a novelty to him, and a girl like Cora Brant was far more than a novelty—she was an exciting experience.” George has been living in a gangster fantasy in which he is always the hero. Now he meets that world head on. George’s troubles have only just begun… Eve is unlike any of James Hadley Chase s works. No gangsters or cops, no double cross, no murder, no danger, no intrigue, no blond bombshells and no tough guys here. Instead you have a tale of infatuation the lead character has with a prostitute which leads to his downward spiral both in personal and professional life. --Dhiraj Sharma, GoodReads An intelligent and harshly revealing piece of work with not a little serious penetration and power. --The Times An accurate description of a corrupted and ruthless woman and a man desperately in love with her. --Kate Papas, GoodReads EVE Clive Thurston is living a lie. Having claimed a dying playwright s masterwork as his own, he is hailed as a brilliant, new author. Thurston is now living the good life in Hollywood. He has a house in the country, a manservant, a beautiful fiancée .then one night he meets Eve. Eve isn t beautiful at all, but she s got a way about her. Thurston is captivated, and in no time, he becomes obsessed. But as everybody knows, Eve is a prostitute, and his reputation around town begins to suffer. His fiancée has been patient, but she can take no more. Thurston is drinking too much, and making bad decisions. But what he can t figure is why Eve keeps rejecting him. If he can only make Eve love him, maybe his own redemption is at hand MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE George knew the exact moment when he fell in love with Cora Brant. At one moment Cora was just someone with whom he hoped to alleviate an hour of lonely boredom; at the next she was someone he was physically and mentally aware of in a most overpowering way. He had bought drinks, and he had been startled that she tackled a pint of beer. And when he looked more closely at her, he realized she was not immaculate in the accepted sense of the word. But George was not critical. Any woman was a novelty to him, and a girl like Cora Brant was far more than a novelty she was an exciting experience. George has been living in a gangster fantasy in which he is always the hero. Now he meets that world head on. George s troubles have only just begun René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, better known by his pseudonym, James Hadley Chase, was born on December 24, 1906, in Ealing, London and was educated at King's School, Rochester, Kent. He left home when he was about eighteen and worked as a traveling salesman selling children's encyclopedias. Later, he joined a wholesale book firm. Chase took up full time writing in 1939 after his first novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, became an immediate success. He moved to France in 1956 and over to Switzerland in 1961, living a secluded life with his wife Sylvia in Corseaux-sur-Vevey north of Lake Geneva, where he died on February 6, 1985. The author of over 90 books, most of them hardboiled Americanized thrillers, Chase remains one of the best known mystery writers of all time.