I recently finishe Don Winslow's The Winter of Frankie
Machine. I thought Winslow's Power of the Dog was among the
best books of 2005 and it has always annoyed me that he
didn't get more acclaim for that outstanding work. When I
started Frankie Machine, I thought it was going to be
Winslow's deliberate effort to scale back from the sweeping
scope of Power of the Dog. The book started off that way, but
expanded to include much, much more. The Rara- Avis archive
show that Crider reviewed this on his blog last December, and
his review nails it.
I've also started reading Charles McCarry. I haven't read
much in the spy genre beyond Robert Littell and Kent
Harrington's American Boys, but the two books I've read so
far in McCarry's series are highly recommended.
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