MrT writes:
<< I just finished _Gospel_, an outstanding hardboiled
police
procedural by Bill James. This book is unlike any
other
procedural I've read. It seems that James has
invented
something new. It's an unlikely cross between the
toughness
of George Higgins and the traditional English
procedural
with inspectors, but even that doesn't describe
the
product.
If this book is typical of his work, James deserves
urgent
attention.
>>
I went on a Bill James reading jag a while ago, and would
second the above statement. What I read was bizarre,
compelling and original. Some of the dialogue is priceless.
Desmond Iles of the later books is some sort of police
procedural version of Richard III. James, I think, has a new
spy novel of some sort out. Readers unfamiliar with Bill
James (a pseudonym for James something...Tucker) might want
to read him for the British crime fiction month. Doug
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