RARA-AVIS: Re: The best novel you read this year

From: Chuck ( chuckelp@ix.netcom.com)
Date: 29 Dec 2007


very positive echo on Don Winslow's Frankie. Great stuff. Movie in 2009, I think.

--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "cptpipes2000" <cptpipes@...> wrote:
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Nathan Cain" <IndieCrime@> wrote:
> >
> > It's the end of the year, and I'm curious to know what novel knocked
> > fellow list members for a loop this year. James Reasoner's Dust Devils
> > did it for me.
>
> Great idea, friend.
>
> IN 2007, I was knocked over by Charles McCarry's TEARS OF AUTUMN
> (1974) and Don Winslow's THE WINTER OF FRANKIE MACHINE (2006).
>
> There are others, of course (soon I hope to comment on the latest from
> Reed Farrel Coleman and David Corbett), but those two jump out.
>



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