Sorcerer

By John Minahan

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446893293
• ISBN13: 9780446893299
• Release Date: August 1977
• Publisher: Warner Books, Inc.
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Wages of Fear

Most "novelizations" are dreadful hackwork but every once in a while a writer with enough talent comes along and creates something that not only doesn't suck but is actually of high enough quality to stand as a decent book all on its own. Mike McQuay did it masterfully with his adaptation of Escape From New York (for my money the best novelization ever and a really nifty piece of future noir science fiction). Richard Elman did it with Taxi Driver. And John Minahan does it with Sorcerer, which is based on several sources: First and foremost the great French thriller Wages of Fear by Georges Arnaud and more specifically the Walon Green screenplay for William Friedkin's 1977 re-make misleadingly titled SORCERER. The basic plot line is the same: 4 men trapped by poverty in a South American backwater are given the chance to earn enough money to escape by driving trucks filled with unstable nitroglycerine across the mountains to put out an oil well fire.