Mark wrote:
I agree, but I'm having trouble thinking of what profession
is the current embodiment of that figure. Perhaps a lawyer?
Or maybe it's someone who manages to be a loner within and
institutional setting?
**************** Just off the top of my head, I'd say a cop.
Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch. Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady.
Thomas Harris's Starling and Graham. Problem being with my
opinion on this is that it's weighted to what I like, rather
than answering the more populist view you are looking for. I
don't hate lawyers, but Gresham taught me to hate lawyer
novels, and I'm not even about to start in on medical
thrillers.
Of those four I mentioned, they all manage to fit well within
the framework of the last sentence I quoted of yours. They
are within the system, but fighting it constantly. Of course,
some of them are perhaps too dated to fit the contemporary
time frame you are talking about. What can I say? The most
recent I've read has usually been out of print for
years.
miker
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