My Laugh Comes Last by James Hadley Chase (Epub)

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Farrell Brannigan, President of the National Californian Bank, is an extremely successful man. So when he builds another bank in an up-and-coming town on the Pacific coast, he is given worldwide publicity, and this new bank is hailed as the ‘safest bank in the world’.

But Brannigan’s success comes at a price and he makes enemies on his way up the ladder. It seems one of them is now set on revenge and determined to destroy both the bank and Brannigan himself.

User’s Reviews

James Hadley Chase was born in London and initially worked as a book wholesaler. He was heavily influenced by American crime and gangster writers and his own books fall within that genre, with many of them based in the U.S. Chase developed a number of series characters, with several books dedicated to each and all are fast moving tales of murder, intrigue, blackmail and espionage. Characters include ex commando Brick-Top Corrigan, Californian private eye Vic Malloy, former C.I.A. agent Mark Girland, and millionaire Don Miclem. Hailed as ” the thriller maestro of the generation “, Chase died in 1985 –This text refers to the paperback edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ OK, this may be a thoroughly enjoyable book if you’ve never read a James Hadley Chase thriller before. If you have, then you’re less likely to be impressed.What can be said about the femme fatale in Chase? You just *know* she’s going to turn out to be the treacherous one, dooming the narrator… In the best Chase books, you don’t mind knowing this beforehand; but it does seem to be too much of a give-away in _My Laugh Comes Last_. Yes, the customary, pleasant plot twist does arrive at the very end as we’ve grown to expect from Chase, but this time, the book’s ending does not seem to have deeper implications; the ending struck me as rather flat, given we’d had a good idea about the femme fatale all along.The book was released in 1977, but feels remarkably old-fashioned even for those days; it’s a late work by Chase, and you feel as if Chase was more at home in the 1950s and 1960s. Yes, I’m not going to judge bank security measures in 1977 by 2013 standards, but even so: it just defies belief that a supposedly “safest bank in the world” would only be guarded by a single watchman the entire weekend (!), and even this guard would be making his regular rounds, leaving the entrance to the bank completely unguarded for longish stretches of time. Did they have no security cameras in the late 1970s? Perhaps not, but even so: the plot seems so far-fetched it makes you shake your head. So, there are a couple of invisible beams in the lobby of “the safest bank in the world”, and after you carefully crawl underneath them, you’re free to spend your entire weekend inside the bank building, even inside its main vault, completely unnoticed and unhindered? Erm, I wonder!The bank security issues make the plot sound hard to believe, but it’s not better with character motivation. Yes, the narrator gets predictably infatuated by the femme fatale — even so, it’s difficult to believe he would throw away everything he had professionally achieved in his life up to that point, just to “get on the run” with his beloved, and remain fugitive with her for the rest of his days. Really?! Why not approach the police instead, and come clean, especially after having collected lots of evidence against the real culprits? Wasn’t the very first thing the narrator wanted to achieve (when the initial blackmail attempts were made), the rescue of his professional career? It seemed that this level of improbable infatuation and recklessness on the part of the narrator was necessary because otherwise the book’s plot just wouldn’t work. And so, the narrator’s infatuation with the femme fatale strikes you more as an artificial plot device, than as a psychologically credible state of mind.There’s another thing that looks like a major plot hole in _My Laugh Comes Last_: one of the novel’s characters makes a provision against getting killed; should that happen, certain documents are arranged to come to light. Yet this character actually *does* get murdered in the novel, but the documents do *not* get published. Why? Chase doesn’t explain. Perhaps the lack of logic in this did not occur to him, nor to his editor. And so, the incriminating documents, instead of getting published, patiently wait in the bank’s vault so they can get captured by multiple parties (“McGuffin” plot device). Again, you get the feeling that this is not about reality, but just another plot device gone awry.In addition to that, the thugs in _My Life Comes Last_ sometimes appear to be inadvertently comical — cartoonish instead of menacing.Yet James Hadley Chase is a supremely skilled writer, isn’t he? And so, despite all its shortcomings, _My Laugh Comes Last_ is a fast read and can certainly be felt “enjoyable” by fans of the thriller genre.

⭐ If you are shielding as I do or in a lockdow, this book will give you a couple of hours of unrelenting entertainment

⭐ Brilliant

⭐ BOOK AS PROMISED

⭐ Very good book I would happyly read it again.

⭐ Great book

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