Mr. Arkadin: Aka Confidential Report: The Secret Sordid Life of an International Tycoon Paperback - 2010
by Orson Welles
Set in the seedy underworld of postwar Europe, Welles's novel focuses on the sinister figure of Gregory Arkadin, a fabulously wealthy and influential financier who enlists the services of a small-time smuggler for an extraordinary assignment.
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The only novel by Orson Welles, a witty, madcap, pulp-noir adventure of international intrigue, blackmail, and murder
The mysterious Mr. Arkadin claims he cannot remember anything of his life prior to the moment in 1927 when he found himself alone in Zurich with two hundred thousand Swiss francs in his pocket, a sum with which he subsequently built a vast fortune. Now a fabulously wealthy and influential financier, he enlists the services of one Van Stratten, a small-time smuggler and racketeer, charging him with the task of investigating Arkadin's forgotten past. Traveling across the world--and through the seedy underworld of postwar Europe--Van Stratten begins piecing together information for his confidential report. But for some unknown and sinisterly suspicious reason, everyone he speaks to soon turns up dead.
The work of an acknowledged genius of the stage and cinema, Mr. Arkadin: Aka Confidential Report is the basis for the controversial motion picture written, directed by, and starring Welles himself--the movie the great auteur bemoaned as "the most butchered film of my career." Welles's hauntingly strange and exhilarating novel remains an enigmatic expression of his intentions and an enduring example of his storytelling brilliance.
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- Title Mr. Arkadin: Aka Confidential Report: The Secret Sordid Life of an International Tycoon
- Author Orson Welles
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Edition
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dey Street Books, New York, New York
- Date 2010-04-06
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780061689031 / 0061689033
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.98 x 0.57 in (20.27 x 15.19 x 1.45 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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