description: W.R. Burnett's The Asphalt Jungle unfolds in short, vivid bursts of atmosphere and character -- a tough and seemingly artless kind of American fiction that reaches out from another era. Yet the novel still slices to the bone in its depiction of the duplicity and corruption that undoes a group of ambitious crooks.
language: English
title: The Asphalt Jungle
titlecomplete: The Asphalt Jungle
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Noir, Classics, Novels, Hard Boiled, 20th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 2237
publisher: William Morrow & Co