David Bell asked:
>Has anyone read a novel called SHOOT by Douglas
Fairbairn? Does anyone know
>anything about the author?
SHOOT is a good, jittery little novel about a hunting trip
gone seriously awry. Well worth a look. I remember thinking
while reading it that it could be made into a movie almost
verbatim. I subsequently learned that it was, in fact, made
into a TV movie starring Andy Griffith. I've never seen the
film and don't know if it retained the title.
Fairbairn was also the author of STREET 8, a hardboiled
masterpiece and arguably the finest novel ever written about
Miami. It may take effort to find a copy, but the reward is
worth it.
He also wrote a fairly straightforward adventure yarn about
treasure and modern pirates in the Caribbean, the title of
which I've forgotten, DOWN & OUT IN CAMBRIDGE, a memoir
of his college days, and at least one children's book.
Douglas Fairbairn died in 1997 of an Alzheimer's-like
condition. He died unaware that he had ever written a word.
Talk about noir endings. PB
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