Loved it! I think it was "fresh" and "new" it was so
different from
anything else I had read at the time, because I read it when
it first
came out and immediately couldn't wait for more. But I think
(and what
do I know??) the only reason Moseley gained the attention he
deserved
was due to President Clinton's reading of WHITE BUTTERFLY. It
might have
been later than that book before he was truly "discovered". I
think the
movie was as good as it was because Moseley had some control
and (if I'm
not mistaken wrote the screen play??) but then Always
Outnumbered,
Always Outgunned was better than -anything- else he has done.
I think
the "good guy with bad guy side-kick" is nothing new (look at
Crais'
Elvis Cole/Joe Pike for this and certainly Spenser/Hawk), but
Moseley's
handling of this phenomenon is a little different. Of course,
it does me
good to say "I was a fan from the first", but now that we are
looking
back maybe we have a different perspective than I had the
first time I
read DEVIL.
-- whose DOROTHYL nom is Kate Warne the ex-Pinkerton in The Woman With the Rose Tattoo by Mari Hall See y'all at Bouchercon 29 in Philly Oct.1-4 # # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/.