You've Got It Coming

First edition
(publ. Robert Hale)

You've Got It Coming is a 1955 thriller novel written by British author James Hadley Chase.

Plot

Harry Griffin, ace Californian Air Transport Corporation pilot, is fired from service and has a relationship with ex model and actress Glorie Dane, who has seen many a man come and go in her life, but loves Harry more than herself and does not want to lose him.Harry soon decides to steal a set of diamonds worth 3 million dollars from a passenger plane leaving CATC,which he was supposed to fly before being dismissed,to which Gloria reluctantly agrees.Soon they rope in Glorie's ex-boyfriend Ben Delaney, who is now a gangster with connections and money, under a false disguise Harry Griffin takes on with Glorie's help, by a name "Harry Green".Ben agrees to provide them men and money to do the job,and 50000 dollars in exchange for the diamonds. But things don't go the way Harry and Glorie expect, especially because of Harry's greed and deceitful ways, and soon begins a deadly hide and seek game, with Glorie and Harry struggling for survival with murderers and cops behind them, and all amidst lies, deception, treachery,blackmail and murder.

References

Works by James Hadley Chase

James Hadley Chase	No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939) Get a Load of This (1942) Eve (1945) I'll Get You for This (1946) La Chair de l'orchidée (1948) Safer Dead (1954) There's Always A Price Tag You've Got It Coming (1955) The Guilty Are Afraid (1957) I Would Rather Stay Poor (1962) The Soft Centre (1964) Cade (1966) The Whiff of Money (1969) Like a Hole in the Head (1970) Just a Matter of Time (1972) My Laugh Comes Last (1977) You Must Be Kidding (1979) You Can Say That Again (1980)

Raymond Marshall	No Business of Mine (1947) Trusted Like the Fox (1948) Mallory (1950)

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