Jim D wrote:
"Read the source novel for BULLITT before you dismiss that
film as a procedural. The hero of Robert L. Fish's MUTE
WITNESS, . . ."
My copy of the retitled movie tie-in paperback gives the
author as Robert L Pike. Now I know Pike was a pseudonym of
Fish's (or is it the other way around?), but has this book
been issued under both names?
"Bullitt becomes a "renegade," therefore, less because he
bucks his superiors to get the job done, since Clancy does as
much without losing his "procedural" status, than because
he's a young, hip swinger who wears turtlenecks and corduroy
sportscoats."
Don't forget the Mustang, which continues to be a signifier
of cool in hardboiled lit. How many PI's, for instance, drive
them?
Mark
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