Of course, in fine thriller tradition, things are not quite what they seem. Eventually it’s revealed that the pair are working to smuggle a valuable necklace out of the country, and Wells is their chosen vessel.įawcett Gold Medal’s edition of ‘Thieves Fall Out’ by “Cameron Kay.” The duo remains disturbingly coy about what exactly the job is, but Wells is in little position to make demands, so he goes along with their scheme. He becomes entangled with a woman named Hélène and a man known as Hastings the pair have a job they need done and they feel Wells is just the man to do it. It’s the story of Pete Wells, an American drifter of sorts who finds himself broke and just this side of desperate in an Egypt that is teetering on the edge of revolution. If you remove Vidal’s name and legacy from Thieves Fall Out, what you’re left with is fairly standard pulp fare. The new edition was released in April of this year. After the author passed away in 2012, Ardai approached his agent and estate and was granted permission to reprint the book. When the book came to the attention of Hard Case Crime founder Charles Ardai, he immediately approached Vidal about republishing it, but Vidal wasn’t interested. Vidal wrote the novel when he was 28, and reportedly never thought much of it. It has remained in obscurity since then, unavailable in any new printing and unknown to all but a handful of readers and scholars who knew the truth: “Cameron Kay” was actually respected American writer Gore Vidal.
Written by an unheralded author known as Cameron Kay, this minor piece of pulp fiction came and went without much fanfare. In 1953, Fawcett Gold Medal published Thieves Fall Out, a crime novel set against a backdrop of political unrest in Egypt. The Hard Case Crime edition of Gore Vidal’s ‘Thieves Fall Out.’
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