Reed Andrus (randrus@home.com)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:24:56 -0700
David White says:
> WEll maybe it's because I just read Eight Million
Ways to Die, but I
> rented the movie True Crime last night with Clint
Eastwood and it sems to
> me it was just Matt Scudder as a new reporter
instead of a PI... It was a
> so-so movie, but it might be interesting to see a
decent movie adaption of
> a character whether intentional or not. The plot
revolves arounda man on
> death row and a reporter trying to get him off in
the last hours and of
> course results ina last minute chase... The pieces
come together well and
> it's not a happy flick but give it a
chance....
>
> - -Dave
The book, which is ten, maybe twenty times better than
Eastwood's dull film rendition, is by Andrew Klavan. It was
an Edgar nominee for Best Novel (which year, 1994/1995,
somewhere in there), probably should have won. Klavan wrote
five very fine noir novels featuring newspaperman John Wells
under the name Keith Peterson, one of which, The Trapdoor,
did win the Edgar for Best First Novel.
True Crime is a brilliant, manipulative novel, highly
recommended.
... Reed
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