Juri's right: I'm a fan of Alan Caillou's books about Tobin's
Army (I don't remember Tobin's first name, but his rank was
Colonel) and Cabot Cain, the giant genius who deals in
likelihoods. They were fast-paced fun, as I remember
them.
And I'm also one of the few who saw DARKER THAN AMBER in the
theater. I wish I could say that I was 13 when I saw it, but
I was considerably older and had been a MacDonald fan for a
good while. One scene that I recall, other than the climactic
fight, is the one where McGee/Taylor is sitting in a
restaurant and the woman who's been hit by a car comes flying
through the window and lands on his table. I thought Taylor
did a valiant job of trying to be McGee, but he just wasn't
right for the role. For that matter, neither was Sam Elliot
in the McGee movie that Stirling Silliphant did the
screenplay for. Silliphant went on to do his own version of
McGee in a pretty good series of novels that also aped the
McGee titles in a way. I remember that BRONZE BELL was one of
them.
Bill Crider
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