>My, Clancy stirred up more discussion than most and
he's not even
>hard-boiled. Or maybe he is. I'd ask but I don't want
to add fuel to the
>fire.
I think most of his characters are when in action ... but in
the overall
atmosphere of the book, no. Hard-boiled did encompass spies
in the past ...
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