Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Stanley Ellin - House Of Cards



Ex-boxer is hired to babysit child of unstable woman in strange house and strange family, and previous guardian apparently killed himself.  After some time, poor man realizes that it is a hideout for terrorist organization and must save his life and life of the child and his mother. First part is rather good, but second become little tedious with all that political shenanigans.

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