Monday, July 19, 2004

Books

Tonight I was able to finish NIGHT OF THE ASSASSINS, which is an excellent book,  a fascinating look inside the murky world of international espionage where personal grudges can take on much larger political overtones.  This reminded me a lot of the novels of John LeCarre and Len Deighton, but with a modern, post-Cold War point of view.  Next up is THE LAST KILL by Charlie Wells, a hardboiled private eye novel (Signet PBO) from 1955.  I've never read Wells before, but the book has a Spillane blurb on the cover, for what that's worth.
 
Earlier in the day I was able to write 16 pages before I got to feelin' poorly.

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