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Language
  
English

Pages
  
256

Originally published
  
1982

Page count
  
256

3.9/5
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Country
  
United Kingdom

Publication date
  
1982

ISBN
  
0-09-147870-7

Author
  
Frederick Forsyth

Publisher
  
Hutchinson

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Genres
  
Short story, Fiction, Crime Fiction

Awards
  
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière - International Category

Similar
  
Works by Frederick Forsyth, Fiction books

No Comebacks is a 1982 collection of ten short stories by Frederick Forsyth. Each story takes place in a different setting and ends with a plot twist. Several of them involve a central male character without any apparent strength who is put under pressure, but who does not give in.

Contents

Penthouse Magazine reviewed the collection by saying: "Quite possibly the most entertaining collection of short stories currently making the rounds."

List of stories and plots

The stories in the collection are:

  • No Comebacks
  • There are no Snakes in Ireland
  • The Emperor
  • There Are Some Days...
  • Money with Menaces
  • Used in Evidence
  • Privilege
  • Duty
  • A Careful Man
  • Sharp Practice
  • Other short stories by the same author

    Forsyth has written another collection of short stories, The Veteran.

    References

    No Comebacks Wikipedia