Hmm. I'm not sure you can say that Braly's utterly forgotten
when most of his novels are still in print.
Somewhere I read something memorable about Aarons but
unfortunately the source wasn't quite as memorable. Despite
the Assignment series taking place in various diverse
locales, I believe (if my memory isn't completely at fault)
that Aarons didn't travel to many of the places he wrote
about. Instead, to ground the reader in the foreign locale,
Aarons devised a certain 'trick' whereby he'd refer to the
occasional banal item (clothing, wildlife, food, etc) in the
native language of the country he was writing about and,
voila, instant exoticism and a dose of credibility. I liked
Assignment-Treason quite a bit.
Al
----- Original Message ----- From: "jacquesdebierue" <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com>
> And what became of Braly? He seems utterly forgotten
these days.
> Anotherguy I like from that era is serial
goldmedalist Aarons... I
> don't know if he actually traveled to all those
exotic places, but he
> wrote a damn good yarn. I think I have all his Gold
Medals, a bunch of
> them found together at a yard sale... nobody wanted
them, I'm sure.
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
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