Bill C wrote:
"Mark, Klavan's TRUE CRIME was pretty much a Keith Peterson
book with the same old crusty reporter under another
name."
Was it the basis of the Clint Eastwood movie of that title? I
never saw that movie, was it any good? (By the way, I just
found out Elmore Leonard wrote Eastwood's Joe Kidd.)
Speaking of movies involving Andrew Klavan, I highly
recommend Shock to the System, with a great performance by
Michael Caine. I thought of it when I much later read
Westlake's The Ax.
On the other hand, I remembered why I didn't move on to the
books Andrew Klavan wrote under his own name. It was due to
my intense disappointment over the ending of his (last?)
Keith Peterson novel, The Scarred Man, not part of the series
I liked so much. It was an okay thriller based on a somewhat
cliched shaggy dog story. It was all leading towards a pretty
creepy revelation that a serious social taboo had been
(unknowingly) broken. We do get that revelation (though it's
far from a surprise when it finally comes), but then it's
conveniently revealed as wrong, replacing a queasy ending,
with a tacked on happy one. As Johnny Rotten put it, Ever get
the feeling you've been cheated?
Mark
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