That's now the third strong recommendation for this book I've
seen/ read/heard in the past two weeks. Good news is I've
ordered it and plan to read it as soon as it comes.
Seth On Sep 24, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Ed Lynskey wrote:
> Lawrence Block wrote this military noir early in his
writing
> career about Paul Kavanagh, an ex-Green Beret who
retires from
> the trade.
>
> What's interesting is that Paul falls in love with
his solitary,
> Crusoe-like life on a deserted Florida Keys island.
George
> Dattner hunts up Paul, and they plot to steal a
shipment of
> nuclear weapons from the military in the
Dakotas.
>
> Paul tells their caper in a low-keyed,
conversational manner. He
> gets so far in, you're left wondering if he'll ever
get back to
> his island paradise a million dollars
richer.
>
> This novel goes, and is one of the better
> retired-from-the-spy-trade crime books I've
read.
>
>
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