JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
<< GERALD PETIEVITCH A US Secret Service Agent who
spent most of his career in the LA area. His dad and his
brother were both LAPD officers. He's written four books
about a Secret Service Agent named Charles Carr, all of them
excellent, particularly THE QUALITY OF THE INFORMANT, one
stand-alone Secret Service novel, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A.,
which he adapted for the movies, and a stand-alone LAPD novel
EARTH ANGELS, based on his brother's activities as a juvenile
gang specialist. His other novels aren't set in LA.
>>
I first tried Petievitch after seeing William Friedkin's film
of TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A., during which WIllem Dafoe's
portrayal of Rick Masters really grabbed me.
GP's novels are nowhere as flashy as Friedkin's film. The
prose is dry almost beyond the point of hard-boiled --
factual, you might say, similar to reading a report of the
action. There's little emotion exhibited by the characters or
even described. They're tough, no-nonsense types.
I liked the early novels by him I read -- MONEY MEN, TO LIVE
AND DIE IN L.A., TO DIE IN BEVERLY HILLS. A later novel -- I
can't remember the title, but it had to do with a murder in
the White House, I think, and focused on the Secret Service
-- didn't quite grab me like the others.
-- Duane
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