This talk about invented cities and RED HARVEST brings to
mind James Grady's STEELTOWN, which not only takes place in
an "invented" city but is an acknowledged homage to HARVEST.
Good book in a good body of work. Grady wanted to call the
book STEALTOWN (note the change in the fourth letter), but
his publisher fought him on it and won. Either the suits were
not smart enough or they thought the public was not smart
enough to get it. Interestingly, Grady grew up in small-town
Montana, in a place not unlike the fictional town of
Personville, likened to Butte. In the new Hammett memoir,
written by his daughter Jo, the author discusses her father's
history as a Pinkerton man on assignment in Montana, an
experience he drew from when writing HARVEST.
George Pelecanos
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