I didn't mean to get defensive about my post regarding
Pelecanos' _Hell to Pay_ and the dogfights--just meant to say
that Pelecanos is better than most writers at really making
you feel for the characters--when you see what they've had
taken away from them, what they've lost, you can almost (not
quite, but almost) understand how they got to be the way they
are.
I got a shipment of the first 40 or so Destroyer paperbacks
on Saturday that I won in an eBay auction and read the first
two--very funny and fast moving. There's a real shift in tone
from book one, which is more a straightforward, serious
treatment of the avenger theme, but which has its moments, to
book two, which is already pretty whacked out, as Remo
becomes the security officer for a think-tank that has,
apparently, developed a simple plan for taking over the
world. With books like these, it's possible to read three or
four of them in a day, so I'll have to be careful to ration
them out. Just want to thank those who contributed to the
"men's adventure" string a few weeks back and inspired me to
look into these.
Craig Larson Trinidad, CO
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