Re: RARA-AVIS: Willeford

Peter Walker (pw@pw.cablenet.co.uk)
Sat, 1 Aug 1998 09:55:53 +0000 Ned Fleming wrote:
"I also read _Sideswipe_ and _New Hope for the Dead_, and I'm halfway
through _The Way We Die Now_. These are all "Hoke Moseley" novels and
are marked with a succession of weird, unbelievably weird, bad guys.
Hoke has an appropriate name -- he's battling all the hokey nutcases
infesting Willeford's Miami. The bad guys may be unbelievable, but
Willeford's writing, especially the dialog, is good enough to move
things forward and somehow make interesting the hash he creates."

I cannot agree that Willefords bad guy's are 'unbelievable'. They are
scary,weird and bad precisely because they are very real people.

Also:
"They're all worth reading as minor entertainments."

Honestly, there's nothing 'minor' about them. They are amongst the
best the genre has to offer. Cannot thing of many who could stake a
claim to be 'mayor' if these are 'minor'.

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