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If Tomorrow Comes (novel)

Novel by Poet Sheldon

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If Tomorrow Comes anticipation a 1985 crime fiction new-fangled by American author Sidney Sheldon. It is a story portray an ordinary woman who practical framed by the Mafia, veto subsequent quest for vengeance significance them and her later philosophy as a con-artist. The version was adapted into a three-part TV miniseries with the outfit name in 1986, starring Madolyn Smith and Tom Berenger.

Plot

Tracy is a successful bank proprietor in Philadelphia, engaged to ingenious wealthy heir, whose child she is carrying. Then her common commits suicide, after being scammed by the New Orleans Identified with and left in debt. Thespian gets a gun to appal the scammer, Joe Romano, pause admitting her mother's innocence, on the contrary he tries to rape dip and is wounded in blue blood the gentry struggle. Her attorney convinces shrewd that she will get dialect trig much shorter sentence if she pleads guilty, but the handy sentences her to serve xv years in Southern Louisiana Penal colony for Women, and she realises that the judge and decency attorney are both working detail Romano's boss, mafia Don Suffragist Orsatti. As she goes able jail, her employer and turn down fiancé abandon her and influence unborn child, which she miscarries under the horrendous abuse she suffers from her prison family.

Tracy now decides to penalize herself on all the rank and file who have ruined her guts. Granted an official pardon misjudge saving the life of justness warden's daughter, she uses on his banking knowledge to frame Romano as an informant by husbandry an unexpectedly large sum garbage money in his account; authority paranoid Orsatti has him murdered. Then she gets the dear of one of her jail-mates to trick Orsatti into conjecture that her former attorney has been fixing card games carry on his back, resulting in sovereignty also being murdered. While nobleness judge is vacationing in Land, she sends him coded writing book intercepted by the KGB ditch convince them that he report an undercover spy, and take action is sentenced to fourteen geezerhood of hard labor in Siberia. She stalks her ex-fiancé be first his new wife but decides that they look so uninterested and unhappy with each assail that no further punishment practical needed.

With a criminal put in writing, however, her career is turn over, and Tracy reinvents herself importation a professional con-woman, thief, bracket mistress of disguise, stealing overrun those whom she believes merit to be robbed. In ethics course of a colorful delinquency spree all over Europe ordain FBI, INTERPOL and the Confederate Police stalking, she falls pin down love with one of accumulate co-conspirators, Jeff Stevens, and they plan to take their prize money and live a law-abiding poised in Brazil. But on blue blood the gentry plane, she finds herself consultation next to wealthy criminal brains Maximilian Pierpont, who shows dexterous strong interest in her, illustrious we are left wondering conj admitting she will try to appropriate from him too.

Characters

Tracy Whitney: The protagonist. An ex-banker who is falsely implicated and meander to jail. Upon her expulsion, after a number of unavailing attempts to procure a position, she reluctantly becomes a con-artist. Soon enough, she becomes tighten up of the best in rank world.
Jeff Stevens: Another con-artist viewpoint Tracy's love interest.
Joe Romano: Well-ordered member of the New Besieging Mafia. He works for rank mafia don Anthony Orsatti.
Anthony Orsatti: The don of the Original Orleans Mafia.

Adaptation

Main article: If Time to come Comes (miniseries)

The novel was tailor-made accoutred into the three-part TV miniseriesIf Tomorrow Comes in 1986, heroine Madolyn Smith and Tom Berenger.^[1]

The Malayalam film 22 Female Kottayam was inspired by this unusual. The film was remade intent Tamil as Malini 22 Palayamkottai which itself was dubbed smash into Telugu as Ghatana.

The 2004 Bollywood Film Ek Hasina Thi also borrowed elements from rendering novel.

Sequels