From the publisher During his lifetime, Horace McCoy, an American journalist, writer and screenwriter, gained great fame not in America, but in Europe, where he was recognized as one of the classics of American literature along with Hemingway and Faulkner. McCoy was appreciated here immediately after the release of his first novel, “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, discovering the closeness of his work to the ideas of existentialist writers. Published in 1948, the novel “Say Goodbye to the Future” put McCoy on a par with Hammett, Kane, and Chandler, belonging to the school of the “tough” detective. Having made another escape from prison, the main character of the book, who despises law, order and human life, finds himself involved in a series of brutal crimes and himself becomes the next victim. And love, prosperity and absolute freedom were so possible...

Horace McCoy's novel was a huge success and served as the basis for the creation of a grandiose gangster movie saga starring James Cagney.