This is the book that Fischer mentioned in his PAPERBACK
QUARTERLY interview as selling two million copies, the best
seller of his Gold Medal novels. It's the story of Harry
Wilde (not the most subtly named character), a professional
basketball player who plans to spend the summer in a small,
upstate New York town to recover from a hard season and a
painful divorce. The place isn't as peaceful as Harry hopes
it will be, though, because the town has all sorts of secrets
(as all small towns do, at least in fiction), and things just
get darker and darker ...
It's all very lurid, melodramatic, and great fun. Fischer got
his start in the weird menace pulps and knows how to keep a
story perking along. I can see why it sold so well, too,
because for its time, this is pretty racy stuff. I enjoyed it
quite a bit and plan to read more of Fischer's novels.
Best, James
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