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The Wages of Fear

novel by Arnaud

Also known as: “Le Salaire de la peur”

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In Georges Arnaud
…salaire de la peur (1950; The Wages of Fear), a story about truck drivers who carried loads of nitroglycerine across treacherous mountain terrain in South America. The novel sold an estimated two million copies worldwide and inspired a suspenseful motion picture of the same name which was released in 1953.
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