I think you'll like it. Mark mentioned reading it earlier,
and that's what encouraged me to finish it from my in-progess
reads.
Ed
--- Seth Harwood <
sethharw@sethharwood.com> wrote:
> 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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