--- Doug Bassett <
dj_bassett@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Max Allan Collins -- SPREE. My first Collins,
though
> I'm certainly familiar with the name. Heist
book
> based
> around a great idea -- robbing a mall.
[edited]
> right now I'm reading Collins's TRUE
DETECTIVE.
Doug--
Is incest a relatively common occurance in SPREE? Is the main
character named Frank Nolan, or something like that? I'm
trying to remember if I've read that one or not. If I did, it
was years and years ago, but I remember liking it.
Please let me know what you think of TRUE DETECTIVE. I have a
copy in my TBR pile, and am about to need to pick a new book
from that pile.
And on that note, I just finished Collins' SHADOW OF A TIGER,
one of the early Dan Fortune series. A good read. I found the
very occasional awkward sentence--maybe a half dozen or so in
200 pages. But the dialogue was very realistic, I thought,
and the characterization superb. Fortune dwells on 'the
meaning of it all' just enough to make him human, without
sounding like a penny-ante philosopher a la Spenser. I'll be
looking for more from this author in the used book
stores.
One last note: the two Mack Slade books by John Blumenthal
have been mentioned here in the not-too-distant past. I think
someone (Mark?) found them in a box somewhere and wanted to
know whether to keep them. I described them as something like
a cross between the movie Airplane and Mike Hammer (which
makes me think that Mr. Lau might like them, after reading
his recent posts about his Hammer screenplay...but maybe
not). *Anyway,* John just joined a writer's group in which I
am also a member, and we had a brief conversation about the
books--he appeared surprised that anyone had read them, much
less remembered them. He did say, however, that his latest,
WHAT'S WRONG WITH DORFMAN?, is in the same vein. Those who
liked the two Mack Slade, and I seem to remember that there
were one or two other than me, might want to check it out.
Blumenthal also did the screenplay for the Martin Lawrence
film Blue Streak, I believe.
G.
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