Re: RARA-AVIS: Don Webb/Jack Banaro

james.doherty@gsa.gov
31 Dec 98 14:41:00 -0500 --UNS_gsauns2_3025183612
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Re Bill Crider's comments on Ted Wood below:


"But if you don't, does anyone read Ted Wood? I really used to enjoy his
books, though I believe he's quit writing now. He did a couple under the
name Jack Banaro about a bodyguard named John Locke, and I'm currently
reading HammerLocke. Locke is a professional bodyguard, and this is an
entertaining hardboiled story."

Ted Wood was a Toronto police officer many years ago, so his books about
small-town police chief Reid Bennett have an authentic tone. I think
they're probably the best of rural-set procedurals.

In an interesting coincidence, some years ago one of Bill's Sheriff Dan
Rhodes books and one of Wood's Bennet books, both coming out within months
of each other, had both small-town lawmen contending with biker gangs that
had invaded their jurisdictions. The exact titles escape me at the moment.
- Jim Doherty

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