>I don't who or what a 'Michener and Clancy' is, nor do
I want to.
>This is clearly off-topic and the thread should have
been put out its
>misery days ago---imho. I think the recent hooh-hah on
the list (the
>most recent hooh-hah, that is, not the hooh-hah while
Bill was on
>holiday) really should be the straw that brings the
rara-avis FAQ down
>on the camel's back.
I disagree ... Mr. Clark is clearly the hardest-boiled
character in print
and Jack Ryan is at least as hard-boiled as Phillip Marlowe
... true, in
the big picture sense Clancy's work doesn't fall in the hard
boiled range,
but the actions of his characters do ... but then what is the
def for
modern hard-boiled? I hope it's not just Vach's criminals
doing good now
and then.
----
volente Deo,
Anthony
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