The Getaway (novel)

The Getaway

First edition
Author	Jim Thompson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Crime fiction
Publisher	Signet
Publication date	1958
Media type	Print

The Getaway is a 1958 crime novel by Jim Thompson.

Doc McCoy pulls off what he thinks is the perfect a bank robbery, but there are things he has forgotten, a treacherous partner, his amateur criminal wife, and that there is no such thing as a clean getaway.

The novel has been adapted into films twice. The 1972 film version of The Getaway starred Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. The 1994 film version of The Getaway starred Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.