It looks like their might be a little joke going on with the
name of Judson's protagonist: Declan MacManus is the real
name of Elvis Costello.
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> Last year I read Dan Simmons' HARD FREEZE, and it
was so
> over the top that I thought maybe it as a sort of
parody.
> This year, I've just read D. Daniel Judson's THE
BONE
> ORCHARD (recommended here some time ago by Gary
Warren
> Niebuhr). All I can say is that the protagonist of
HARD
> FREEZE is a mere girly-boy compared to Declan
MacManus of
> THE BONE ORCHARD. MacManus absorbs more punishment
in about
> ten pages of the book than Mike Hammer in his entire
career.
> After that, things really get rough for him. If
HARD
> FREEZE was over the top, this one's out there in
the
> stratosphere. There is a sequel, but from
Gary's
> description of it, it sounds like it may have been
written
> first but published second, a not unknown phenomenon
in the
> publishing field. At any rate, THE BONE ORCHARD
is
> entertaining enough, if incredible, though the
protagonist's
> final shattering realization comes as absolutely no
surprise
> to anyone but him.
>
> Bill Crider
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