I grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. Aarons set his spy
novels
here. His descriptions of a Virginia Potomac waterfront were
so
unbelievable that they made clear to me that he'd never been
to the
area.
I can't read an author who is that sloppy with his locales.
It's
like another mystery writer (name mercifully forgotten, but
he liked
to mix psychic elements into his mystery plots, which didn't
help) who
described "the cliffs of Long Island," clearly unaware that
Long
Island is a giant sand bar....
On the other hand, I was a big fan of Donald Hamilton's Matt
Helm
books -- and his westerns, as well. The last (most recent) of
his
books on my shelf is THE VANISHERS, 1986. Has he had more
recent
books?
--Ted White
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