Re: RARA-AVIS: Eugene Izzi anyone?

Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 17:38:13 -0400 (EDT) Eugene Izzi did die recently, a couple of years ago. He was found
dangling outside the window of his locked office in a high rise, I think
in Chicago. The scene replicated one in his just finished book, whose
title I don't recall and I'm not sure if it ever came out. He had told
people that he thought he was being stalked by neo-Nazis whose group he
had infiltrated while researching the book. The Washington Post printed
a long article in the Sunday Style section on 2/2/97; the fascinating
"The End of his Rope" explores the various theories that were floated to
explain his death: killed by the neo-Nazis; death by mis-adventure while
researching how his hero had saved himself from the same situation; or
suicide in a grandstanding, PR kind of way. He had just sold his first
book under his own name in several years after having published a series
as Nick Gaitano. I read the first 3 or 4 of Izzi's books and remember
liking them quite a bit. I'm not sure why I didn't keep going.

Mark

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