NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Donald E. Westlake's lost masterpiece MEMORY, adapted for the screen as THE ACTOR. “An unsparing look at a man adrift, it's a fitting final dispatch from a master.”—Time "Terse and bleak and low-key emotional… indelible."—Entertainment Weekly Hospitalized after a liaison with another man’s wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul’s facing steep odds—and a bleak fate if he fails... This never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man’s struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.