Inside Man

About the Book

When Spain’s dictator stops the music …

Here is George Fox’s finest fiction. In Without Music, the tense and hilarious novel that opens this collection, Merle Kraft returns to Majorca on a desperate mission. To save his child’s life, he must shadow a beautiful psychopath. Besides, Merle has to cope with smugglers, a tweedy British nymphomaniac, a Mafia wire-tapper turned preacher, a bizarre band of war veterans, and an ex-wife who won’t go away.

I love the book. Fox is a brilliant, witty writer who has mastered his craft superbly. Without Music is as haunting a story as it is a solidly satisfying piece of entertainment.

---Mario Puzo

A strange, rueful, wise, most unusual novel … by an author who owns a rich fund of surprises. ---Bruce Jay Friedman In addition to Without Music, this book restores to print two darkly comic stories first published in Esquire and Paris Review. In an afterword, X. J. Kennedy remembers George Fox and offers a critical appreciation.

About the Author

GEORGE FOX (1930-2000) wrote five novels, among them the best-selling thriller Amok, and the script for the classic disaster film Earthquake. He served with the U.S. Air Force in the Philippines, worked as a reporter and an editor of adventure magazines, contributed to Playboy and Saturday Evening Post. He lived in New York, New Jersey, and California.