----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" <
donna.moore@virgin.net>
> He has another series set in London which is also
apparently very
> hard-boiled (I have them but not read them as yet),
and he's labelled as
> Brit-noir.
Definitely shouldn't be. He's Irish. About as British as
Joyce or Yeats.
Bruen knows noir first hand. Here's the intro to a recent
interview with him:
"You're a teacher, for Christ's sake, taking a drink in a pub
in Rio de Janeiro.
It's 1979: You're over there to teach presumably
grateful Brazilians to speak English. A fight breaks out. You
and every other European in the joint are rounded up and
jailed. Bad enough, but your captors are sadistic whack-jobs:
They shove your head into buckets of excrement and rape you.
You slide into a self-described state of "catatonia." Your
captors hold onto you for several months. Half-a-year later
you emerge from the Brazilian jail, dangerously skinny and
vaguely suicidal. Upon reflection, you decide not to take
yourself out - why let them win? (Your fellow European
inmates seemingly lack your determination for survival and
soon die or go missing.) Where do you go from there?"
The rest of the interview is available at: http://www.modestyarbor.com/ken_brueninterview.html
Al
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