You've got it coming is a 1955 thriller novel written by British author

Author

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 James Hadley Chase

James Hadley Chase

James Hadley Chase is the best-known pseudonym of the British writer Rene Brabazon Raymond who also wrote under the names James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, and Raymond Marshall. Chase is one of the best known thriller writers of all time...

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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

CATC

CATC may refer to:*Chicago Analytic Trading Company*Chinese Association on Smoking Control*Civil Aviation Training Center*Confédération Syndicale du Congo*Catapult C Synthesis*Civil Aviation Training College, India...

,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

Gangster

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 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

Hide and seek

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 game, with Glorie and Harry struggling for survival with murderers and cops behind them, and all amidst lies, deception, treachery

Treachery

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,blackmail and murder.