One of the reasons I like Jonathan Valin's Harry Stoner
series so much was because Harry DID make the hard choices
himself and he agonized over them. I can remember his choice
to kill the bad guy at the end of
(I think) _Extenuating Circumstances_. If I'm remembering
this correctly, this guy was a truly evil person (child
molester?) and as deserving of death as any bad guy character
I've ever read. Yet it was not an easy choice for Stoner to
kill him--it was very difficult thing. And not too long after
this, the series came to a conclusion. I think this was
because Valin was meeting with declining sales, but at the
time I read a number of critical suggestions that, having
taken things over the line, there wasn't anyplace else for
the series to go. If I'm mis-remembering this, please correct
me--it's been years since I read this series, which has
always been one of my favorites and most-missed.
Craig Larson Trinidad, CO
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