And according to Wikipedia, a remake is to be released inAfter reading the book: I am surprised to say that I liked this book.
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. What he doesn't know is that his every move is recorded on audio and video tape, although he is not the subject of any surveillance. Can all-out war be averted? A Goodreads friend flagged this book. The The Anderson Tapes is an amusing New York-based caper film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sean Connery. Welcome back. In Alyssa Cole’s unnerving social thriller When No One is Watching, Sydney Green returns to Brooklyn after a traumatic breakup to find gentrificati...This novel represents the first appearance of Lawrence Sanders' most famous character, Edward X. Delaney, and the masterpiece of murder and suspense that launched Sanders' career.This novel represents the first appearance of Lawrence Sanders' most famous character, Edward X. Delaney, and the masterpiece of murder and suspense that launched Sanders' career.It is and it isn't.
The Anderson Tapes is a 1971 American Technicolor neo noir crime film in Panavision directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sean Connery and featuring Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam and Alan King. Socks is a Anderson has unwittingly entered a world of pervasive surveillance – the agents, cameras, Jimmy, the son of two of the residents, is a paraplegic and asthmatic who is left behind in his air-conditioned room.
Yes, it may seem a little dated now and parts of it read a little like an episode of a 1970's TV crime show, but it is still a fantastic first novel by any standards.Lawrence Sanders (1920-1998) began his hugely successful writing career in 1969 with this groundbreaking book, which won the Edgar Award for best first novel. During the 60's this type of crime could actually have taken place. The Anderson Tapes is a fun, pulpy heist thriller from New York auteur Sidney Lumet.
He makes plans to rob the entire building. It is all form transcripts of wiretaps and interviews as well as other forms of documents such as court records and witness statements. The Anderson Tapes (1971) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The screenplay was written by Frank Pierson, based upon a best-selling 1970 novel of the same name by Lawrence Sanders. There is an “author” who describes what we are about to read as his summation of a wide variety of transcriptions of various tape recordings, witness statements, court records, concealed wiretap evidence, etc. A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment.
There is an “author” who describes what we are about to read as his summation of a wide variety of transcriptions of various tape recordings, witness statements, court records, concealed wiretap evidence, etc.
Very 1970s in its style. It was produced in 1971, at an interesting juncture between old-fashioned crime pictures and later conspiracy films concerned with the nefarious uses of new technologies.
It was very suspenseful and I actually would like to see it made into a movie. I just couldn't get interested in the characters or the plot.Despite being published near the early seventies, this book feels very modern and touches upon issues that are even more relevant today. An early example of the techno-thriller, The Anderson Tapes --sharply directed by Sidney Lumet from the novel by Lawrence Sanders--follows just-out-of-jail Duke Anderson (a balding Sean Connery) as he plots the heist of an entire New York apartment building, enlisting a crew that includes Martin Balsam as a vintage 1971 gay stereotype and a very young Christoper Walken in perhaps the first of his jittery crook … Lo and behold I just Googled it and realized that a movie directed by Sidney Lumet was done in 1971 with a score by Quincy Jones.
We’d love your help. I was a big fan of Mr. Sanders in my young adult-hood, but had never read this, his first novel.I was a big fan of Mr. Sanders in my young adult-hood, but had never read this, his first novel.Will this ingenious scheme to burglarize an entire apartment building succeed? Details below.
The story starts out as a typical old time robbery/burglary that escalates into a much larger ingenious crime. No need to waste time endlessly browsing—here's the entire lineup of new movies and TV shows streaming on Netflix this month. that relate to the crime in question. During the Cold War, the British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-Agent Krasnevin a.k.a.
This solves the problem of flowery prose that drags down most books.
The best answer is that this book is really only a part of the Deadly Sin series in the sense that it introduces the character of Delaney.It’s been a while since I’d read Lawrence Sanders so I decided to try his first novel, originally published in 1969, and I have to admit I had my doubts about novel told entirely through the transcripts of various wiretaps? It's hard to read people's accounts of what happened without actually seeing it.
A very entertaining, enjoyable, fast read mystery-thriller.Ok caper novel, told by a series of police tapes on the members of the heist crew, the detectives and later the victims of the heist. A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions.
Ed X. Delaney doesn't appear until 3/4s of the way through the novel, although he plays a very major role from that point on.
Much like the book, despite the increasing information and resources at the fingertips of justice services and the government, Despite being published near the early seventies, this book feels very modern and touches upon issues that are even more relevant today. After police rush the building and a large group head upstairs they open double doors at the stairwell that were locked by the thieves from the other side minutes earlier.
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It is all form transcripts of wiretaps and interviews as well as other forms of documents such as court records and witness statements.